Institutions and entrepreneurship

In this volume, we examine how the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial organizations, and vice-versa. This includes not only how the institutional environment constrains both founding processes and the type of organizations founded, but also how institutional dynamics construct new ent...

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Other Authors Sine, Wesley D., David, Robert J.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of work ; v. 21.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857242402
ISSN0277-2833 ;
DOI10.1108/S0277-2833(2010)21
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 364 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Institutions and entrepreneurship / Wesley D. Sine & Robert J. David
  • Entrepreneurs and professionals : the mediating role of institutions / W. Richard Scott
  • Categorization by association : nuclear technology and emission free electricity / Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman & Peter Karnøe
  • Networks as institutional support : law firm and venture capitalist relations and regional diversity in high-technology IPOs / Helena Buhr & Jason Owen-Smith
  • Institutional rivalry and the entrepreneurial strategy of economic development : business incubator foundings in three states / Paul Ingram, Jiao Luo & Joseph P. Eschun
  • The shape of things to come : institutions, entrepreneurs and the case of hedge funds / Pamela S. Tolbert & Shon Hiatt
  • Rhetoric that wins clients : entrepreneurial firms use institutional logics when competing for resources / Candace Jones, Reut Livne-Tarandach, & Lakshmi Balachandra
  • Creating attention and favourability during the emergence of new industries : the case of film in America, 1894 to 1927 / Stephen J. Mezias, Theresa K. Lant, C. Mezias & J. Miller
  • Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence and organizational leadership : tuning in to the next big thing in satellite radio / Mary Ann Glynn & Chad Navis
  • Why effective entrepreneurial innovations sometimes fail to diffuse : identity-based interpretations of appropriateness in the Saint-milion, Languedoc, Piedmont and Golan Heights wine regions / Grégoire Croidieu & Philippe Monin
  • Beam me up, Scott(ie)! : institutional theorists struggles with the emergent nature of entrepreneurship / Howard E. Aldrich.