Institutional Entrepreneurship
The Energy2B project: stimulating environmental entrepreneurship and building an energy infrastructure through institutional entrepreneurship
... term institutional entrepreneurship refers to the "activities of actors who have an interest in particular institutional arrangements and who leverage resources to create new institutions or to ...
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Beyond the Farmer and the Butcher: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Local Meat
... emerging institutional field and usefully describe university cooperative extension’s role in developing local food systems as “institutional ...particular institutional arrange- ments and who ...
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Institutional Entrepreneurship in Ghana’s Informal Microfinance Institutions
... the institutional space owing to the market ...the institutional space. This study of institutional entrepreneurship and its analysis is tied around the institutional change process and ...
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The Transformation from Traditional Nonprofit Organizations to Social Enterprises: An Institutional Entrepreneurship Perspective
... of institutional works that enable the incor- poration of commercial processes within traditional NPOs (providing meaning and focus to each ...the institutional entrepreneurship perspective of ...
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Small groups as context for institutional entrepreneurship: An exploration of the emergence of commercial microfinance in Bolivia
... A group of them – namely, the leaders of ANED, CIDRE, FADES, FIE, and Sartawi – began discussing an alternative institutional entrepreneurship opportunity: the launching of a develop- ment microfinance ...
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Adjusting to Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Institutional Entrepreneurship in Rhode Island's Knowledge Economy
... for institutional entrepreneurship to be successful in Rhode Island’s enterprise development system the organizations involved must not be threatened with the idea of change even if change is the ...
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Institutional entrepreneurship in the Linux certification field: the role of discursive strategies and social positioning
... of institutional entrepreneurship has emerged recently within institutional theory as a promising way to account for divergent change, which breaks with the dominant discourse of an organizational ...
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Development of shared production facilities of the High Tech Factory: The process of the institutional entrepreneurship in a collaborative group
... Within the case of the High Tech Factory choices were necessary regarding what would be studied, considering the size of the case. In case study research, studying multi-level phenomena, the choices are narrowed down to ...
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The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship
... of institutional entrepreneurship that spans two levels, something that is rarely done in the prior literature (for an exception, see Smets et ...the institutional entrepreneurs at CarCorp who found ...
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A formative evaluation of collaborations for leadership in applied health research and car (CLAHRC) : institutional entrepreneurship for service innovation Final report
... practice. Institutional entrepreneurs need to be embedded in existing power structures, but willing to change such structures, if evidence-based innovation is to ensue on the ...
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Launching professional services automation: Institutional entrepreneurship for information technology innovations
... Lastly, although we have given them separate treatment thus far, we also explored the relationship between mobilization and legitimation. On the one hand, our case shows that legitimacy aided mobilization. For example, ...
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Institutional Entrepreneurship in Afghanistan: How Afghan Merchants and Afghan Judges Negotiate Innovative Financing Solutions
... Afghanistan’s institutional landscape and introduces new possibilities for legal reform in ...between institutional entrepreneurs and Afghanistan’s ...
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Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: A tale of two regions
... origin but lived in West Germany at the time the interview was conducted or vice versa. Inner-German migrants might have a different level of fear of failure and might differently perceive start-up activity than ...
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Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan
... institutional theorists, when the codified laws and regulations of the formal institutions of a society are incongruent with the norms, values and beliefs of its informal institutions, one finds the emergence of ...
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The Formation of Opportunity Feasibility Beliefs in Social Entrepreneurship: A Configurational Analysis of Institutional Conditions
... organized institutional features in the formation of opportunity feasibility beliefs and the conjunctural mechanisms in ...locally-orientated institutional theorizing (Greenwood et ...local ...
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Shattering the glass ceiling? How the institutional context mitigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship
... These socio-cultural biases are problematic if one considers how society often devalues female credibility. Occupational segregation and domestic/caring responsibilities are prevalent for women (Maushart, 2008), and ...
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Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education in China
... Types of entrepreneurial education in china Entrepreneuria l education Entrepreneurial education in school Social entrepreneurial training Entrepreneurial education in primary. [r] ...
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The State of Social Entrepreneurship - Context of Social Entrepreneurship
... Only recently has there been a political willingness to develop an advantageous climate for social enterprise. There was early interest in: i) creating a legal form suitable for social enterprises, which was completed in ...
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Institutional matrices and institutional changes
... We suggest our diagnosis and projections on the basis of the above propositions. In the course of reformation of the post-Soviet Russia two stages are identified. The first stage (from the mid-1980s to the end of the ...
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Teaching Entrepreneurship And Micro-Entrepreneurship: An International Perspective
... Micro-entrepreneurship is an offshoot of the collateral-free and group-based lending known as microcredit operation developed by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 (Mondal, 2002). The essence of microcredit program, as ...
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