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When institutional entrepreneurship failed

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2018
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of power relations in initiating and blocking accounting change that involves increased “responsibilisation” and “incentivisation”, and to understand how institutional entrepreneurship is steered by power strategies.Design/methodology/approachAn in-depth case study was carried out between 2010
Maria Major, Ana Conceição, Stewart Clegg   +2 more
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Returnee Entrepreneurship and Institutions

2021
Abstract Chapter 3 sets out the importance of institutions for fostering entrepreneurship. It demonstrates that formal institutions, defined as rules and regulations, and informal institutions, defined as norms and values, change over time, and that the overall framework can either encourage or hold back entrepreneurship.
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Rationality, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Evolution.

Revue économique, 1995
Résumé Les concepts de rationalité limitée et les modes de comportements adaptatifs qui y sont associés aident à expliquer pourquoi des mécanismes de marché et des institutions spécifiques sont nécessaires pour « médiatiser » les échanges ; pourquoi l'économie peut évoluer hors de l'équilibre ; pourquoi le capitalisme démocratique change aussi vite ...
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Entrepreneurship and institutional uncertainty

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022
PurposeThe study aims to demonstrate how different arrangements and characteristics of institutions can generate or mitigate uncertainty thereby facilitating or hampering the possibilities of entrepreneurial action.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper that advances the theoretical understanding of the relationship between ...
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Situated human agency, institutional entrepreneurship and institutional change

Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2006
PurposeThis paper evaluates the influence of the institutional context on the dynamics of institutional change and the possibilities for human agency in this process.Design/methodology/approachA comparison of the emergence of the temporary work agency industry in five countries is used to illustrate the influence of three elements of the institutional ...
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Institutions and female entrepreneurship

Small Business Economics, 2011
This paper compares the impact of institutions on men and women’s decisions to establish new business start-ups between 2001 and 2006. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey (GEM) which cover at least 2,000 individuals per year in each of up to 55 countries and have merged it with country-level data, from the World Bank, Economist ...
Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
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Institutions, incentives and entrepreneurship

2013
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 118 of the most ...
Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin
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Institutions, Incentives, and Entrepreneurship

2015
Because countries have different institutional structures and provide different incentives for entrepreneurs, we believe it is most useful to think of entrepreneurship as a national system. We therefore present the framework for a National System of Entrepreneurship and the global entrepreneurship and development index (GEDI) as ways to evaluate such a
Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Erkko Autio   +2 more
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Geography, Institutions, and Entrepreneurship

The geographic spread of nations would pose logistics challenges in production, distribution and servicing, impacting costs, with implications for entrepreneurship. Using panel data from 62 countries spanning the years 2006 to 2021, we find that of the different oceanic geographic dimensions considered, the number of islands undermines entrepreneurship.
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza, Goel, Rajeev K., Saunoris, James W.   +2 more
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Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Corruption

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
This paper examines the public-interest theory of regulation by exploring the relationship between market activity, regulation, economic freedom and the direction of entrepreneurial efforts.
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