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 …

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 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 …

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 …

The powerful imagery of entrepreneurship as a means to induce and explain institutional
change is gaining momentum (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006; Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006) …

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 …

The notion of institutional entrepreneurship has become very popular in the last decade.
Starting from a review of the literature on the topic, I first focus on the use of the idea of …

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 …

According to the founding editors, the primary motivation for the creation of SO! was 'to
reduce the separation that characterizes the study of strategic and organizational …

We explore what institutional entrepreneurs do to propagate new organizational forms. Our
findings are derived from a longitudinal study of theEuroregion', an organizational form used …