Institutional entrepreneurship as a field of academic enquiry is focused on the roles played
by individual agents and agents acting in concert in promoting institutional change. From …

In this article, we explore whether organized clusters can act as institutional entrepreneurs to
create conditions favorable to innovation in their constituent members. We view self-aware …

CHARLENE ZIETSMA AND BRENT MCKNIGHT unique contribution of institutional theory is
the insight that organizations need legitimacy as well as technical efficiency to survive and …

Industrial research is key to creating and combining scientific knowledge and technological
know-how in regional systems of innovation. The corporate laboratory sits at the center of …

This chapter brings together well-established perspectives on entrepreneurship as well as a
new perspective of the entrepreneurial function that conforms with the analytical framework …

Zafirovski, Milan, ’Probing into the Social Layers of Entrepreneurship: Outlines of the
Sociology of Enterprise’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 11, no.4 (October-December …

During the past twenty-thirty years, universities have increasingly attracted attention as
sources of inspiration for regeneration of industry or as sites of industrial innovation in itself …

The paper reviews the current discussion on institutional change and institutional
entrepreneurship. Specifically, it focuses on institutional change agents, by which we mean …

Purpose–This paper evaluates the influence of the institutional context on the dynamics of
institutional change and the possibilities for human agency in this process …

Once again it is the potential of industrial districts that constitutes the starting point for an
ambitious and detailed analysis aiming to show that the differences and specificities of a …