A growing body of research has cataloged the myriad actors involved in tackling persistent
institutional problems. Yet we lack a theoretical toolkit for explicitly conceptualizing and …

We shed new light on the processes through which institutions are created and changed by
investigating the question how does institutional entrepreneuring unfold in an already …

Institutional theory provides a powerful lens for explaining individual and collective action.
Recently, increased efforts towards understanding how institutions are created have led to a …

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 notion of institutional entrepreneur (DiMaggio, 1988) incorporates the role of actors and
interests into institutional theory. However, depending on the assumption that is made about …

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 …

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 …

HE concept of institutional work describes" the purposive action of individuals and
organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions"(Lawrence & …

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 …

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 …