Field and historical data from China delineate two specific process mechanisms that
facilitate institutional change: diminished utility of regulatory controls and negotiated …

To fulfill their economic and social missions, it is imperative yet challenging for hybrid
ventures to demonstrate legitimacy (fitting in) while simultaneously projecting distinctiveness …

Entrepreneurship enjoys widespread appeal in nearly all capitalist nations, but start‐up
success has proved elusive for most entrepreneurs. We explain the low likelihood of …

Corporate governance deals with the mechanisms used by organizations to enhance the
power and accountability of key stakeholders who are responsible for generating, protecting …

In this article, we address the question of institutional and organizational change through the
start-up of new ventures. Following the institutional entrepreneurship theory, we examine the …

Most entrepreneurs emanate from established organizations, yet systematic theorizing about
the ways in which organizations shape the entrepreneurial process has only recently begun …

Despite widespread and growing public interest in sustainability certifications, many social
entrepreneurs have opted not to obtain such certification. Drawing on recent studies …

Entrepreneurship research, as an academic field, has grown from groups of isolated
scholars to an international community of departments, institutes, and foundations. Growth …

In this chapter we intend to analyze the worrisome case of the antibiotics industry, as the
number of active firms, innovation output and profitability has constantly declined in the last …

From inception, start-ups are torn between two opposing legitimacy pressures: the need to
differentiate from competitors and the need to conform to stakeholders' expectations. In this …