Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0601

References

  • Abrahamson E., Fairchild G. Management fashion: Lifecycles, triggers and collective learning processes. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1999) 44(4):708–740CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Aldrich H. E., Fiol C. M. Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation. Acad. Management Rev. (1994) 19(4):645–670CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Aldrich H. E., Reiss A. J. Continuities in the study of ecological succession: Changes in the race composition of neighborhoods and their businesses. Amer. J. Sociol. (1976) 81(4):846–866CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Aldrich H. E., Ruef M.Organizations Evolving (2006) (Sage, London) CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Aldrich H. E., Wiedenmayer G., Katz J. A., Brockhaus R. H. From traits to rates: An ecological perspective on organizational foundings. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (1993) 1(JAI Press, Greenwich, CT) 145–195Google Scholar
  • Asmus P.Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future (2001) (Island Press, Washington, DC) Google Scholar
  • Baron J. N., Burton M. D., Hannan M. T. Engineering bureaucracy: The genesis of formal policies, positions and structures in high-technology firms. J. Law, Econom., Organ. (1999) 15(1):1–41CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Beckman C. M., Burton M. D. Founding the future: Path dependence in the evolution of top management teams from founding to IPO. Organ. Sci. (2008) 19(1):3–24LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Begley T. M., Tan W.-L. The socio-cultural environment for entrepreneurship: A comparison between East Asian and Anglo-Saxon countries. J. Internat. Bus. Stud. (2001) 32(3):537–553CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Berger P. L., Luckmann T.The Social Construction of Reality; A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966) (Doubleday, Garden City, NY) Google Scholar
  • Bonacich E. A theory of middle-man minorities. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (1973) 38(5):583–594CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Bonacich E. “Making it” in America: A social evaluation of the ethics of immigrant entrepreneurship. Sociol. Perspect. (1987) 39(4):446–466CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Brandl J., Bullinger B. Reflections on the societal conditions for the pervasiveness of entrepreneurship in Western societies. J. Management Inquiry (2009) 18(2):159–173CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Burton M. D., Beckman C. M. Leaving a legacy: Role imprints and successor turnover in young firms. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (2007) 72(2):239–266CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Burton M. D., Sørensen J. B., Beckman C. M. Coming from good stock: Career histories and new venture formation. Res. Sociol. Organ. (2002) 19:22–262Google Scholar
  • Casson M.The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory (1982) (Martin Robertson, Oxford, UK) Google Scholar
  • Cole R. E.The Death and Life of the American Quality Movement (1995) (Oxford University Press, New York) Google Scholar
  • Cooper A., Acs Z. J., Audretsch D. B. Entrepreneurship: The past, the present, the future. Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction (2003) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA) 21–34Google Scholar
  • Dacin M. T., Dacin P. A., Greenwood R., Oliver C., Sahlin K., Suddaby R. Tradition as institutionalized practice: Implications for deinstitutionalization. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2008) (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA) 327–351Google Scholar
  • Dacin M. T., Oliver C., Roy J.-P. The legitimacy of strategic alliances: An institutional perspective. Strategic Management J. (2007) 28(2):169–187CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • David R. J., Kipping M., Clark T. Institutional change and the growth of strategy consulting in the United States. Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (2011) (Oxford University Press, London) . ForthcomingGoogle Scholar
  • David R. J., Bitektine A. B., Buchanan D. A., Bryman A. The deinstitutionalization of institutional theory? Exploring divergent agendas in institutional research. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Research Methods (2009) (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA) 160–175Google Scholar
  • David R. J., Strang D. When fashion is fleeting: Transitory collective beliefs and the dynamics of TQM consulting. Acad. Management J. (2006) 49(2):215–233CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • David R. J., Sine W. D., Haveman H. A. Seizing opportunity: How institutional entrepreneurs legitimate new kinds of organizations in emerging industries. (2008) . Working paper, McGill University, MontréalGoogle Scholar
  • Delmar F., Shane S. Legitimating first: Organizing activities and the survival of new ventures. J. Bus. Venturing (2004) 19(3):385–410CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • DiMaggio P. J., Powell W. W., DiMaggio P. J. Constructing an organizational field as a professional project: U.S. art museums, 1920–1940. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (1991) (University of Chicago Press, Chicago) 267–292Google Scholar
  • DiMaggio P. J., Powell W. W. The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (1983) 48(2):147–160CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • DiMaggio P. J., Powell W. W., Powell W. W., DiMaggio P. J. Introduction. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (1991) (University of Chicago Press, Chicago) 1–28Google Scholar
  • Dobbin F., Kelly E. L. How to stop harassment: Professional construction of legal compliance in organizations. Amer. J. Sociol. (2007) 112(4):1203–1243CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Dowell G., David R. J. Effects of ancestral populations on organizational founding and failure: Private liquor stores in Alberta, 1994–2003. (2009) . Working paper, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYGoogle Scholar
  • Garner R.Contemporary Movements and Ideologies (1996) (McGraw-Hill, New York) Google Scholar
  • Gartner W. B. Who is an entrepreneur? is the question. Amer. J. Small Bus. (1988) 12(4):11–32Google Scholar
  • Glynn M. A., Greenwood R., Oliver C., Sahlin K., Suddaby R. Beyond constraint: How institutions enable identities. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2008) (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA) 413–430CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Goldscheider C.Jewish Continuity and Change: Emerging Patterns in America (1986) (Indiana University Press, Bloomington) Google Scholar
  • Graffin S. D., Ward A. J. Certifications and reputation: Determining the standard of desirability amidst uncertainty. Organ. Sci. (2010) 21(2):331–346LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Granovetter M., McGuire P., Callon M. The making of an industry: Electricity in the United States. The Law of Markets (1998) (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK) 147–173Google Scholar
  • Greenwood R., Hinings C. R. Design archetypes, tracks and the dynamics of strategic change. Organ. Stud. (1988) 9(3):293–316CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Greenwood R., Suddaby R. Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The big five accounting firms. Acad. Management J. (2006) 49(1):27–48CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Greenwood R., Suddaby R., Hinings C. R. Theorizing change: The role of professional associations in the transformation of institutionalized fields. Acad. Management J. (2002) 45(1):58–80CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Greve H. R., Posner J.-E., Rao H. Vox populi: Resource partitioning, organizational proliferation, and the cultural impact of the insurgent microradio movement. Amer. J. Sociol. (2006) 112(3):802–837CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Guler I. Throwing good money after bad? Political and institutional influences on sequential decision making in the venture capital industry. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2007) 52(2):248–285CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Guler I., Guillén M. F., MacPherson J. M. Global competition, institutions and the diffusion of organizational practices: The international spread of the ISO 9000 quality certificates. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2002) 47(2):207–232CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Haveman H. A., Rao H., Paruchuri S. The winds of change: The Progressive movement and the bureaucratization of thrift. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (2007) 72(1):117–142CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Hiatt S. R. Enabling and constraining effects of attention structures on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. biodiesel industry. (2009) . Working paper, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYGoogle Scholar
  • Hiatt S. R., Sine W. D., Tolbert P. S. From Pabst to Pepsi: The deinstitutionalization of social practices and the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2009) 54(4):635–667CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Higgins M. C., Gulati R. Getting off to a good start: The effects of upper echelon affiliations on underwriter prestige. Organ. Sci. (2003) 14(3):244–263LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Hinings C. R., Tolbert P. S., Greenwood R., Oliver C., Sahlin-Andersson K., Suddaby R. Organizational institutionalism and sociology: A reflection. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2008) (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA) 473–491CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Hoffman A. J. Institutional evolution and change: Environmentalism and the U.S. chemical industry. Acad. Management J. (1999) 42(4):351–371CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Holm P. The dynamics of institutionalization: Transformation processes in Norwegian fisheries. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1995) 40(3):398–422CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Ierfino L. Niche logic spillover to mainstream markets: How small players changed the mature Canadian wine field. (2010) . Unpublished doctoral dissertation, McGill University, MontréalGoogle Scholar
  • Kalev A., Dobbin F., Kelly E. L. Best practices or best guesses? Assessing the efficacy of corporate affirmative action and diversity policies. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (2006) 71(4):589–617CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Katila R., Mang P. Exploiting technological opportunities: The timing of collaborations. Res. Policy (2003) 32(2):317–332CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Khaire M. Young and no money? Never mind: The material impact of social resources on new venture growth. Organ. Sci. (2010) 21(1):168–185LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Khessina O. M., Carroll G. R. Product demography of de novo and de alio firms in the optical disk drive industry, 1983–1999. Organ. Sci. (2008) 19(1):25–38LinkGoogle Scholar
  • King B. G., Soule S. A. Social movements as extra-institutional entrepreneurs: The effect of protests on stock price returns. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2007) 52(3):413–442CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Kipping M. American management consulting companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: Products, reputation, and relationships. Bus. Hist. Rev. (1999) 73(2):190–220CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Kirzner I. M.Competition and Entrepreneurship (1973) (University of Chicago, Chicago) Google Scholar
  • Krippner G. R. The financialization of the American economy. Socio-Econom. Rev. (2005) 3(2):173–208CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lawrence T. B., Suddaby R., Clegg S. R., Hardy C., Lawrence T. B., Nord W. R. Institutions and institutional work. The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies (2006) (Sage, London) 215–254CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lee B. H. The infrastructure of collective action and policy content diffusion in the organic food industry. Acad. Management J. (2009) 52(6):1247–1269CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lee B. H., Sine W. D., Frenken K. Constructing market opportunity: Environmental movements and the transformation of regional regulatory regimes. Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography (2007) (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK) 93–120Google Scholar
  • Light I. H.Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks (1972) (University of California, Berkeley) CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Light I. H., Gold S. J.Ethnic Economies (2000) (Academic Press, San Diego) Google Scholar
  • Light I. H., Rosenstein C.Race, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Urban America (1995) (Aldine DeGruyter, New York) Google Scholar
  • Lounsbury M. Institutional sources of practice variation: Staffing college and university recycling programs. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2001) 46(1):29–56CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lounsbury M., Ventresca M., Hirsch P. M. Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: A cultural–political perspective on U.S. recycling. Socio-Econom. Rev. (2003) 1(1):71–104CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Marquis C., Glynn M. A., Davis G. F. Community isomorphism and corporate social action. Acad. Management Rev. (2007) 32(3):925–945CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • McCarthy J. D., Zald M. N. Resource mobilization and social movements: A partial theory. Amer. J. Sociol. (1977) 82(6):1212–1241CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Meyer J. W., Rowan B. Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. Amer. J. Sociol. (1977) 83(2):340–363CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Mitsuhashi H., Shane S., Sine W. D. Organization governance form in franchising: Efficient contracting or organizational momentum? Strategic Management J. (2008) 29(10):1127–1136CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • North D. C.Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990) (Cambridge University Press, New York) CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • O'Keefe S. Job creation in California's enterprise zones: A comparison using a propensity score matching model. J. Urban Econom. (2004) 55(1):131–150CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Pendergrast M.For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definite History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It (1993) (Basic Books, New York) Google Scholar
  • Pennings J. M. Organizational birth frequencies: An empirical investigation. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1982) 27(1):120–144CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Phillips D. J. A genealogical approach to organizational life chances: The parent-progeny transfer and Silicon Valley law firms, 1946–1996. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2002) 47(3):474–506CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Phillips N., Lawrence T. B., Hardy C. Discourse and institutions. Acad. Management Rev. (2004) 29(4):635–652CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Portes A., Guarnizo L. E., Haller W. J. Transnational entrepreneurs: An alternative form of immigrant economic adaptation. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (2002) 67(2):278–298CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Rajiman R., Tienda M. Immigrants' pathways to business ownership: A comparative ethnic perspective. Internat. Migration Rev. (2000) 34(3):682–706CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Rao H. Caveat emptor: The construction of nonprofit consumer watchdog organizations. Amer. J. Sociol. (1998) 103(4):912–961CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Rao H.Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations (2009) (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ) Google Scholar
  • Romanelli E., Khessina O. M. Regional industrial identity: Cluster configurations and economic development. Organ. Sci. (2005) 16(4):344–358LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Rosenkopf L., Tushman M. L. The coevolution of community networks and technology: Lessons from the flight simulation industry. Indust. Corporate Change (1998) 7(2):311–346CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Saxenian A.Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (1994) (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA) Google Scholar
  • Schneiberg M., Lounsbury M., Ventresca M. J. Organizational heterogeneity and the production of new forms: Politics, social movements and the mutual companies in American fire insurance, 1900–1930. Social Structure and Organizations Revisited: Research in the Sociology of Organizations (2002) 19(JAI Press, Greenwich, CT) 39–89CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Schneiberg M., Bartley T. Regulating American industries: Markets, politics, and the institutional determinants of fire insurance regulation. Amer. J. Sociol. (2001) 107(1):101–146CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Scott W. R.Institutions and Organizations: Ideas and Interests (2008) (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA) Google Scholar
  • Seo M.-G., Creed W. E. D. Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change: A dialectical perspective. Acad. Management Rev. (2002) 27(2):222–247CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Shane S. Explaining variation in rates of entrepreneurship in the United States: 1899–1988. J. Management (1996) 22(5):747–781Google Scholar
  • Shane S. Prior knowledge and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities. Organ. Sci. (2000) 11(4):448–469LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Shane S., Venkataraman S. The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Acad. Management Rev. (2000) 25(1):217–226CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Shapero A., Sokol L., Kent C. A., Sexton D. L., Vesper K. H. The social dimensions of entrepreneurship. Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship (1982) (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ) 72–90Google Scholar
  • Sine W. D., David R. J. Environmental jolts, institutional change, and the creation of entrepreneurial opportunity in the U.S. electric power industry. Res. Policy (2003) 32(2):185–207CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Sine W. D., David R. J.Institutions and Enterpreneurship. Research in the Sociology of Work (2010) 21(Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK) Google Scholar
  • Sine W. D., Lee B. H. Tilting at windmills? The environmental movement and the emergence of the U.S. wind energy sector. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2009) 54(1):123–155CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Sine W. D., David R. J., Mitsuhashi H. From plan to plant: Effects of certification on operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector. Organ. Sci. (2007) 18(4):578–594LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Sine W. D., Haveman H. A., Tolbert P. S. Risky business? Entrepreneurship in the new independent-power sector. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2005) 50(2):200–232CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Sine W. D., Shane S., DiGregorio D. The halo effect and technology licensing: The influence of institutional prestige on the licensing of university inventions. Management Sci. (2003) 49(4):478–496LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Skinner J., Staiger D., Berndt E. R., Hulten C. R. Technology adoption: From hybrid corn to beta-blockers. Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches (2007) (University of Chicago, Chicago) 545–572CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Sorenson O., Audia P. G. The social structure of entrepreneurial activity: Geographic concentration of footwear production in the United States, 1940–1989. Amer. J. Sociol. (2000) 106(2):424–462CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Sorenson O., Stuart T. E. Entrepreneurship: A field of dreams? Academy of Management Annals (2008) 2(Routledge, New York) 517–543Google Scholar
  • Strang D., Meyer J. W. Institutional conditions for diffusion. Theory Soc. (1993) 22(4):487–511CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Stuart T. E., Hoang H., Hybels R. C. Interorganizational endorsements and the performance of entrepreneurial ventures. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1999) 44(2):315–349CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Suchman M. C. Managing legitimacy: Strategic and institutional approaches. Acad. Management Rev. (1995) 20(3):571–610CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Suchman M. C., Cahill M. The hired-gun as facilitator: The case of lawyers in Silicon Valley. Law Soc. Inquiry (1996) 21(3):679–712CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Swaminathan A., Wade J. B., Schoonhoven C., Romanelli E. Social movement theory and the evolution of new organizational forms. The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evoltuion of Industries (2001) (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA) 286–313Google Scholar
  • Thornton P. H. The sociology of entrepreneurship. Annual Rev. Sociol. (1999) 25:19–46CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Tolbert P. S., Zucker L. G. Institutional sources of change in the formal structure of organizations: The diffusion of civil service reform, 1880–1930. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1983) 28(1):22–39CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Tolbert P. S., Zucker L. G., Clegg S., Hardy C., Nord W. The institutionalization of institutional theory. Handbook of Organization Studies (1996) (Sage, London) 175–190Google Scholar
  • Tripsas M. Unraveling the process of creative destruction: Complementary assets and incumbent survival in the typesetter industry. Strategic Management J. (1997) 18(Summer special issue):119–142CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Tushman M. L., Anderson P. Technological discontinuities and organizational environments. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1986) 31(3):439–465CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Uzzi B. The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect. Amer. Sociol. Rev. (1996) 61(4):674–698CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Uzzi B. Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: The paradox of embeddedness. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1997) 42(1):35–67CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Waldinger R. D., Aldrich H., Ward R.Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies (1990) (Sage, Newbury Park, CA) Google Scholar
  • Weber K., Heinze K. L., DeSoucey M. Forage for thought: Mobilizing codes in the movement for grass-fed meat and dairy products. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2008) 53(3):529–567CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Williamson O. E.The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (1985) (Free Press, New York) Google Scholar
  • Zhou M. Revisiting ethnic entrepreneurship: Convergencies, controversies and conceptual advancements. Internat. Migration Rev. (2004) 38(3):1040–1074CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Zott C., Huy Q. N. How entrepreneurs use symbolic management to acquire resources. Admin. Sci. Quart. (2007) 52(1):70–105CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Zucker L. G., Darby M. R., Brewer M. B. Intellectual human capital and the birth of U.S. biotechnology enterprises. Amer. Econom. Rev. (1998) 88(1):290–306Google Scholar
  • Zuckerman E. W. The categorical imperative: Securities analysts and the illegitimacy discount. Amer. J. Sociol. (1999) 104(5):1398–1438CrossrefGoogle Scholar
INFORMS site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some are essential to make our site work; Others help us improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Please read our Privacy Statement to learn more.