While the past decade has produced a number of insights into the process of institutional
change, scholars still lack a comprehensive understanding of the germinal stages of …

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 …

How do we reconcile misalignments between a system's existing normative and cognitive
elements and novel regulatory change? Prior work either largely focuses only on regulatory …

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

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

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 …

How do institutions affect entrepreneurship? Conversely, how do entrepreneurs impact
institutions? Institutional theory has long struggled to explain the action and agency inherent …

Institutional theories of organizations in sociology have focused on exteriority and constraint
over the past three decades, in keeping with their roots in macrosocial theory. These …

We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts
facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory …

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in
new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms …