Entrepreneurs’ Networking Styles and Normative Underpinnings during Institutional Transition

Institutional Entrepreneurs

In a market economy, entrepreneurs are businessmen who start a new business or expand an existing business by integrating production factors. In an emerging market economy, where market institutions are being established, in order to start or expand a successful business, a businessman not only has to possess the same ability as their counterpart in a market economy, he also has to overcome man...

Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: a Framing Perspective

We integrate the predictions of prospect theory, the threat-rigidity hypothesis, and institutional theory to suggest how patterns of institutional persistence and change depend on whether decision makers view environmental shifts as potential opportunities for or threats to gaining legitimacy. We argue that in the event that decision makers face ambiguity in their reading of the environment, th...

Normative Alignment, Institutional Resilience and Shifts in Legal Governance of the Energy Transition

In Europe, the energy transition by means of a governance shift through liberalization is followed by a transition and shift towards community energy initiatives, with a particular view of supporting the demand for greater energy sustainability. What institutional legal consequences, as constraints and opportunities for lawful behaviour, follow from a shift in legal governance towards facilitat...

Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Bricolage of Intellectual Property Discourses

Commercial software firms are increasingly becoming involved with open source communities. In this research-in-progress paper I briefly analysed a single firm case that demonstrates how an institutional entrepreneur mixes in an innovative way different discourses in an attempt to legitimise a new mode for developing software applying both open and closed source codes. The institutional entrepre...

Institutional Polycentrism, Entrepreneurs’ Social Networks, and New Venture Growth