We present a review and analysis of the rich body of research on the adoption and diffusion
of IT-based innovations by individuals and organizations. Our review analyzes 48 empirical …

To gain an in-depth understanding of legitimacy as a general social process, we review
contemporary approaches to legitimacy within two areas of sociology: social psychology and …

Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a
unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from …

Although prior research has addressed the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
on perceived customer responses, it is not clear whether CSR affects market value of the …

Institutional approaches to organization studies focus attention on the relationships among
organizations and the fields in which they operate, highlighting in particular the role of …

By considering the amount of uncertainty perceived and the willingness to bear uncertainty
concomitantly, we provide a more complete conceptual model of entrepreneurial action that …

People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community
outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society …

I extend the resource-based view to incorporate the network resources of interconnected
firms. My model distinguishes shared resources from nonshared resources; identifies new …

This paper identifies a practice turn in current strategy research, treating strategy as
something people do. However, it argues that this turn is incomplete in that researchers …

This study examines change initiated from the center of mature organizational fields. As
such, it addresses the paradox of embedded agency—that is, the paradox of how actors …