Institutions and Entrepreneurship

Institutions and Entrepreneurship - Research in the Sociology of Work

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this volume, we examine how the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial organizations, and vice-versa. This includes not only how the institutional environment constrains both founding processes and the type of organizations founded, but also how institutional dynamics construct new entrepreneurial opportunities, empower and facilitate action, and how entrepreneurs manipulate the institutional environment to serve their own ends. This institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and, how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.

Book information

ISBN: 9780857242396
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.04
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 364
Weight: 698g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 34mm