Institutions and entrepreneurship / edited by Wesley D. Sine, Robert J. David.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sine, Wesley D.

David, Robert J.

Series:

Research in the sociology of work ; v. 21.

Research in the sociology of work, 0277-2833 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

New business enterprises.

Associations, institutions, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 entrepreneurial opportunities, empower and facilitate action, and how entrepreneurs manipulate the institutional environment to serve their own ends. This institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612888205

9781282888203

128288820X

9780857242402

0857242407

OCLC:

682906588