Does Institutional Change in Universities Influence High-Tech Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China’s Project 985

References

• Ahlstrom D (2010) Innovation and growth: How business contributes to society. Acad. Management Perspect. 24(3):11–24.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Anderson JC, Gerbing DW (1988) Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach. Psych. Bull. 103(3):411–423.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Astebro TB, Bazzazian N, Braguinsky S (2012) Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy. Res. Policy 41(4):663–677.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Austin AE (2002) Preparing the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. J. High Ed. 73(1):94–122.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Batjargal B, Hitt M, Tsui A, Arregle J-L, Webb J, Miller T (2013) Institutional polycentrism, entrepreneurs’ social networks and new venture growth. Acad. Management J. 56(4):1024–1049.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Baum JR, Bird BJ (2010) The successful intelligence of high-growth entrepreneurs: Links to new venture growth. Organ. Sci. 21(2):397–412.Link, Google Scholar
• Berger P, Luckmann T (1966) The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Random House, New York).Google Scholar
• Brislin RW (1970) Back-translation for cross-cultural research. J. Cross Cult. Psychol. 1(3):185–216.Crossref, Google Scholar
• China Agricultural University (2010) Project 985 and Project 211 proceeding with successful progress: Plan for development of academic majors unveiled (“985”“211”,). Accessed May 6, 2015, http://fzghc.cau.edu.cn/news/16/1254.html.Google Scholar
• China Education Online (2008) List of “985 Project” Universities (“985”). Accessed May 6, 2015, http://gaokao.eol.cn/gxmd_2920/20080630/t20080630_305646.shtml.Google Scholar
• Cho HJ, Pucik V (2005) Relationship between innovativeness, quality, growth, profitability, and market value. Strategic Management J. 26(6):555–575.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Cohen WM, Levinthal DA (1990) Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Admin. Sci. Quart. 35(1)128–152.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Dahlstrand AL (1997) Growth and inventiveness in technology-based spin-off firms. Res. Policy 26(3):331–344.Crossref, Google Scholar
• D’Aunno T, Succi M, Alexander JA (2000) The role of institutional and market forces in divergent organizational change. Admin. Sci. Quart. 45(4):679–703.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Davidsson P, Achtenhagen L, Naldi L (2007) What Do We Know About Small Firm Growth? The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (Springer, New York), 361–398.Google Scholar
• DiGregorio D, Shane S (2003) Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others? Res. Policy 32(2):209–227.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Dobbin F, Dowd TJ (1997) How policy shapes competition: Early railroad foundings in Massachusetts. Admin. Sci. Quart. 42(3):501–529.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Donald MN (1960) Implications of nonresponse for the interpretation of mail questionnaire data. Public Opinion Quart. 24(1):99–114.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Dutton JE, Dukerich JM (1991) Keeping an eye on the mirror: Image and identity in organizational adaptation. Acad. Management J. 34(3):517–554.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Education, Audiovisual, and Cultural Executive Agency (EACEA) (2012) Entrepreneurship education at school in Europe: National strategies, curricula, and learning outcomes. Report, EACEA P9 Eurydice and Policy Support, Brussels.Google Scholar
• Filion F (1975) Estimating bias due to nonresponse in mail surveys. Public Opinion Quart. 39(4):482–492.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Golde CM (1998) Beginning graduate school: Explaining first-year doctoral attrition. New Directions Higher Ed. 1998(101):55–64.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Gottlieb D (1961) Processes of socialization in American graduate schools. Soc. Forces 40(2):124–131.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Greenwood R, Raynard M, Kodeih F, Micelotta ER, Lounsbury M (2011) Institutional complexity and organizational responses. Acad. Management Ann. 5(1):317–371.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hargadon A, Sutton RI (1997) Technology brokering and innovation in a product development firm. Admin. Sci. Quart. 42(4):716–749.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Haveman HA, Rao H, Paruchuri S (2007) The winds of change: The progressive movement and the bureaucratization of thrift. Amer. Sociol. Rev. 72(1):117–142.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hiatt S, Park S (2013) Lords of the harvest: Third-party influence and regulatory approval of genetically modified organisms. Acad. Management J. 56(4):923–944.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hiatt SR, Sine WD, Tolbert PS (2009) From Pabst to Pepsi: The deinstitutionalization of social practices and the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Admin. Sci. Quart. 54(4):635–667.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hmieleski KM, Baron RA (2009) Entrepreneurs’ optimism and new venture performance: A social cognitive perspective. Acad. Management J. 52(3):473–488.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hsu DH, Roberts EB, Eesley CE (2007) Entrepreneurs from technology-based universities: Evidence from MIT. Res. Policy 36(5):768–788.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Huang Y (2008) Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (Cambridge University Press, New York).Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hu AG (2010) Propensity to patent, competition and China’s foreign patenting surge. Res. Policy 39(7):985–993.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Katila R, Chen EL (2008) Effects of search timing on innovation: The value of not being in sync with rivals. Admin. Sci. Quart. 53(4):593–625.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Kerr W, Nanda R (2010) Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and firm entry size. J. Eur. Econom. Assoc. 8(2–3):582–593.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Khaire M (2010) Young and no money? Never mind: The material impact of social resources on new venture growth. Organ. Sci. 21(1):168–185.Link, Google Scholar
• Kim H, Kim H, Lee PM (2008) Ownership structure and the relationship between financial slack and R&D investments: Evidence from Korean firms. Organ. Sci. 19(3):404–418.Link, Google Scholar
• Kleinschmidt EJ, Cooper RG (1991) The impact of product innovativeness on performance. J. Product Innovation Management 8(4):240–251.Crossref, Google Scholar
• La Porta R, Lopez-de-Silanes F, Shleifer A, Vishny R (1997) Legal determinants of external finance. J. Finance 52(3):1131–1150.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Laverty KJ (1996) Economic “short-termism”: The debate, the unresolved issues, and the implications for management practice and research. Acad. Management Rev. 21(3):825–860.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Li H, Atuahene-Gima K (2002) The adoption of agency business activity, product innovation, and performance in Chinese technology ventures. Strategic Management J. 23(6):469–490.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Li H, Zhang Y (2007) The role of managers’ political networking and functional experience in new venture performance: Evidence from China’s transition economy. Strategic Management J. 28(8):791–804.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Li ZH (2008) A comparative study of information literacy and intellectual property literacy (). Library Work Colleges Universities 28(6):26–29.Google Scholar
• Meyer JW, Rowan B (1977) Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. Amer. J. Sociol. 83(2):340–363.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Meyer JW, Scott WR, Deal TE (1983) Institutional and technical sources of organizational structure. Meyer JW, Scott WR, eds. Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality (Sage, Beverly Hills, CA), 45–67.Google Scholar
• Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (1998) Action plan for revitalizing the national education system for the 21st century (21). Accessed May 6, 2015, http://old.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/moe_177/200407/2487.html.Google Scholar
• Moser P (2005) How do patent laws influence innovation? Evidence from nineteenth-century world’s fairs. Amer. Econom. Rev. 95(4):1214–1236.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Mukhopadhyay T, Kekre S (2002) Strategic and operational benefits of electronic integration in B2B procurement processes. Management Sci. 48(10):1301–1313.Link, Google Scholar
• Oliver C (1991) Strategic responses to institutional processes. Acad. Management Rev. 16(1):145–179.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Park SH, Luo Y (2001) Guanxi and organizational dynamics: Organizational networking in Chinese firms. Strategic Management J. 22(5):455–477.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Peng Y (2004) Kinship networks and entrepreneurs in China’s transitional economy. Amer. J. Sociol. 109(5):1045–1074.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Peng MW, Luo Y (2000) Managerial ties and firm performance in a transition economy: The nature of a micro-macro link. Acad. Management J. 43(3):486–501.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Powell WW, Colyvas JA (2008) The microfoundations of institutions. Greenwood R, Oliver C, Sahlin K, Suddaby R, eds. Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (Sage, London), 276–298.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Prideaux D, Alexander H, Bower A, Dacre J, Haist S, Jolly B, Norcini J, Roberts T, Rothman A, Rowe R (2000) Clinical teaching: Maintaining an educational role for doctors in the new health care environment. Medical Ed. 34(10):820–826.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Rindova VP, Kotha S (2001) Continuous “morphing”: Competing through dynamic capabilities, form, and function. Acad. Management J. 44(6):1263–1280.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Rothaermel FT, Agung SD, Jiang L (2007) University entrepreneurship: A taxonomy of the literature. Indust. Corporate Change 16(4):691–791.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Scott WWR (2014) Institutions and Organizations: Ideas, Interests, and Identities (Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA).Google Scholar
• Seo MG, Creed WD (2002) Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change: A dialectical perspective. Acad. Management Rev. 27(2):222–247.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Shanghai Jiaotong University (2012) Department holds meeting to discuss graduate school curriculum development under Project 985 (“985”). Accessed June 6, 2013, http://www.sjtudental.org.cn/xwgg/xyxw/2012/0214/956.html.Google Scholar
• Sine WD, Shane S, DiGregorio D (2003) The halo effect and technology licensing: The influence of institutional prestige on the licensing of university inventions. Management Sci. 49(4):478–496.Link, Google Scholar
• Sine WD, Lee BH (2009) Tilting at windmills? The environmental movement and the emergence of the U.S. wind energy sector. Admin. Sci. Quart. 54(1):123–155.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Sine WD, David RJ, Mitsuhashi H (2007) From plan to plant: Effects of certification on operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector. Organ. Sci. 18(4):578–594.Link, Google Scholar
• Staton AQ, Darling AL (1989) Socialization of teaching assistants. New Directions Teaching Learning 1989(39):15–22.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Stinchcombe AL (1965) Social structure and organizations. March JG, ed. Handbook of Organizations (Rand McNally & Co., Chicago), 142–193.Google Scholar
• Stuart TE, Ding WW (2006) When do scientists become entrepreneurs? The social structural antecedents of commercial activity in the academic life sciences. Amer. J. Sociol. 112(1):97–144.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Teece DJ (1986) Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy. Res. Policy 15(6):285–305.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Tolbert PS (1988) Institutionalization and organizational culture in major law firms. Zucker L, ed. Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment (Ballinger Press, Boston), 101–113.Google Scholar
• Tolbert PS, Zucker LG (1996) Institutionalization of institutional theory. Clegg S, Hardy C, Nord W, eds. Handbook of Organizational Studies (Sage, London), 175–190.Google Scholar
• Tripsas M (2009) Technology, identity, and inertia through the lens of “The Digital Photography Company.” Organ. Sci. 20(2):441–460.Link, Google Scholar
• Westphal JD, Zajac EJ (1998) The symbolic management of stockholders: Corporate governance reforms and shareholder reactions. Admin. Sci. Quart. 43(1):127–153.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Witt MA, Lewin AY (2007) Outward foreign direct investment as escape response to home country institutional constraints. J. Internat. Bus. Stud. 38(4):579–594.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Xin KK, Pearce JL (1996) Guanxi: Connections as substitutes for formal institutional support. Acad. Management J. 39(6):1641–1658.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Yang CG (2010) Project 985—National strategy for developing world-class universities (“985”). Accessed May 6, 2015, http://xkb.nwsuaf.edu.cn/bencandy.php?fid=12&id=24.Google Scholar
• Zhang H, Patton D, Kenney M (2013) Building global-class universities: Assessing the impact of the 985 Project. Res. Policy 42(3):765–775.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Zucker LG (1977) The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence. Amer. Sociol. Rev. 42(5):726–743.Crossref, Google Scholar