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 …

We are delighted to introduce this special issue of Organization Studies, the purpose of
which is to develop a deeper understanding of the concept of institutional entrepreneurship …

Entrepreneurship, defined here in a general sense as the process of creating a new
organization, contributes to both economic and social renewal. Yet, until recently …

While early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent
studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront. Institutional …

The term 'institutional entrepreneurship'refers to the 'activities of actors who have an interest
in particular institutional arrangements and who leverage resources to create new …

For the past decade, institutional entrepreneurship has been lauded as being a fundamental
area for study within institutional theory. In their compendium, Greenwood et al.(2008: 18) …

Institutional theory is a prominent perspective in contemporary organizational research. It
encompasses a large, diverse body of theoretical and empirical work connected by a …

In one of the earliest papers arguing for an institutional approach to studying organizations,
Meyer and Rowan clearly spelled out the relevance of institutional theory for understanding …

In this chapter, we review the emerging and rapidly growing body of organizational research
on institutional entrepreneurship. This term refers to the 'activities of actors who have an …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to propose an action-interaction-process framework to
extend research on institutional entrepreneurship. The framework examines an actor's …