Institutional Pressures, Institutional Work and the Development of Universities' Entrepreneurial Turn

Strategic Management and Universities ’ Institutional Development

Institutional Determinants and Entrepreneurial Action

The paper examines the effect of specific institutional factors on entrepreneurial activity. In the course of the examination, we encounter various viewpoints regarding entrepreneurship and different needs of national politics. The research objective is to determine whether institutional factors influence early-stage entrepreneurial activity. There is a broad array of opinions on appropriate se...

Extending the ‘ Institutional ’ Turn Property , Politics and Development Trajectories

As institutional approaches have come to dominate the mainstream of development economics, they have outgrown earlier and simpler analyses of ‘property rights’. This paper focuses on the work of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, which suggests that the distribution of property rights to a ‘broad cross-section of the population’ is the key to growth and that property rights protection that privil...

Institutional Pressures and Organizational Response

By investigating the business environment in Sub-Saharan Africa from an institutional theory perspective, the purpose of this thesis is to explain organizational response to the forces of this particular institutional environment. Coercive, normative and mimetic pressures serve as the basis for explaining the institutional environment. The organizations respond to these pressures by seeking leg...

The entrepreneurial process : An institutional perspective

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of development of the firm in interaction with its institutional environment, which I call “the entrepreneurial process”. This can be studied in three phases, i.e. initiating phase, establishment phase and growth phase. I am going to present a model, describing the entrepreneurial process and try to explain the co-relation and interaction between ...