Recent research has conceptualized legitimacy as a multi‐level phenomenon comprising
propriety and validity. Propriety refers to an individual evaluator's belief that a legitimacy …

Purpose This essay raises a concern about the trajectory that new institutionalism has been
following during the last decades, namely an emphasis on heterogeneity, change and …

We accomplish three tasks here:(a) We highlight the lack of cross-fertilization between
research on network theory and the resource-based view of the firm (RBV).(b) We sketch by …

Recent research on start-up accelerators has drawn attention to the central importance of
social resource exchange among peers for entrepreneurial success. But such peer …

How do organizational structures influence organizational decision making? This article
reveals organizational structures' dual function: they both (1) aggregate and (2) shape …

In this paper, we explain how and why people become motivated to participate in
institutional processes. Responding to recent efforts to address the micro and meso in …

This double volume presents the state of the art in research on the microfoundations of
institutions. In this introductory chapter, we develop an overview of where the emerging …

New path creation processes are a vital component of regional economic development. This
paper establishes a behavioural framework to examine and understand such processes. It is …

Trust represents a key social mechanism facilitating collaboration in interorganizational
relationships. Yet, the concept of interorganizational trust is surrounded by substantial …

This article adopts a relational perspective to demonstrate that characteristics of the dyadic
relationship between supervisors and their employees are critical to understanding …