Innovations accompanying transitions often prompt institutional change if they do not match
with existing institutions. Transition studies started to incorporate institutional dynamics into …

This paper introduces a Special Issue on the theme of Entrepreneurship and Institutional
Change. Drawing upon the accumulated literature and three original contributions it aims to …

Recent literature on institutional entrepreneurship has examined the enabling conditions
under which actors may influence institutional arrangements. Whereas conditions at field …

Institutional entrepreneurship comprises the activities of agents who disrupt existing social
institutions or create new ones, often to enable diffusion, especially of radical innovations, in …

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 …

Studies on institutional change generally pertain to the agency-structure paradox or the
ability of institutional entrepreneurs to spearhead change despite constraints. In many …

The study of institutional change is a core research area in organization theory and is of
increasing relevance for scholarship in other disciplines. In this article, we review the …

This article examines the interrelations of institutions and entrepreneurship to illustrate how
they co-evolve. It takes the government, the public, and entrepreneurs as the actors of formal …

Although there are many potential points of intersection between institutional theory and
contemporary studies of entrepreneurship, these have generally remained distinct …

The literature on socio-technical transitions pays increasing attention to the role of
incumbent firms during transitions. These firms have been found to variably further, delay, or …