How Do Institutional Carriers Alleviate Normative and Cognitive Barriers to Regulatory Change?

The authors thank Li Sha, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Robert Eberhart, Ray Levitt, Riitta Katila, Steve Barley, Woody Powell, Rosemarie Ziedonis, John Meyer, Dick Scott, Andy Spicer, Peter Suttmeier, Lauren Lanahan, Alex Davis, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ruth Aguilera, and seminar participants at Rice University Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets, Stanford University, the University of Oregon, Wharton, University of Alberta, University of South Carolina, University of California-Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University, and Nanyang Technological University for their valuable comments and suggestions. This work would not have been possible without the diligent research assistance of Qin Lu, Kou Yixin, You Wu, Xiao Hu, Shuchen Cong, Liangjie Wu, Xuelai Li, and Cui Can. Finally, we also want to thank Wes Sine and three anonymous reviewers for their contributions throughout this review process.