With few exceptions (eg Fincham & Clark, 2002; Lounsbury, 2002, 2007; Montgomery &
Oliver, 2007), we know little about how emerging professions, such as management …

We draw on the early history of the management consulting field to build theory about how
institutional entrepreneurs legitimate new kinds of organizations in emerging fields. We …

Over the last decade, most professional services, such as those provided by management
consultants, engineering consultants, lawyers, accountants, advertising agencies, and …

ÔProfessional service firms are critical agents of contemporary economies and
understanding them has become a central focus of recent scholarship. This very timely and …

When I started doing research on the strategic management of professional (business)
service firms more than 20 years ago (1988–89), I found very little written on both strategy …

Institutional theory acknowledges the intimate relationship between professionals and
profound social change (Hwang & Powell, 2005). Most research, however, has focused on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to address the decreasing role of professional
associations in governing the work of entrepreneurial, knowledge-intensive professions …

This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional entrepreneurship
since Paul DiMaggio introduced this notion in 1988. Based on a systematic selection and …

This article analyses from an institutional perspective efforts by two entrepreneurs in
governmental organizations to promote new practices and programmes and the nature of …

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) …