Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research

By Pamela S. Tolbert, Robert J. David, Wesley David Sine. Organ. Sci., 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Social trust and angel investors' decisions: a multilevel analysis across nations (2015, background): “However, researchers have paid insufficient attention to other stakeholders, such as angel investors (Tolbert et al., 2011).”
Entrepreneurial practices in research-intensive and teaching-led universities (2016, background): “Some of the decision processes involved in creating a new venture, designing the structure of the organisation and managing relationships with a range of stakeholders (particularly with funders) (Tolbert et al. 2011) involve cognitive (as well as relational) processes of sense-making.”
Institutional Theory and Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership: Evidence from 92 Countries (2015, unknown): “…pillars and supported the contention that institutional differences lead to country-level variations in the structuring and development of entrepreneurial framework conditions (Aldrich 2011; Bruton et al. 2010; Meek, Pacheco, and York 2010; Peng and Zhou, 2005; Tolbert, David, and Sine 2011).”
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study (2014, background): “Further, examinations of the extent that the criteria for selection diverge between crowdfunding and other approaches to entrepreneurial finance can offer insight how the funding environment affects the diversity of projects and ideas developed by entrepreneurs (Tolbert et al., 2011).”
Swept Away by the Crowd? Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs (2013, unknown): “Scholars have increasingly been interested in the part that institutional contexts play on in the success of new ventures (Aldrich & Fiol, 1994; Aldrich & Martinez, 2007; Tolbert et al., 2011).”
Women's self-employment: An act of institutional (dis)integration? A multilevel, cross-country study (2013, background): “Tolbert et al. (2011) point out that literature on regional variance in entrepreneurship participation and on ethnic entrepreneurship, in particular, shows that the institutional context shapes entrepreneurial decision-making.”
Beyond Red Tape and Fools: Institutional Theory in Entrepreneurship Research, 1992–2014 (2017, background): “…et al. (2010) briefly reviewed EIn research published between 1999 and 2009 and identified main research themes and shortcomings; in a similar vein, Tolbert et al. (2011) went through articles published between 1990 and 2009 and summarized the mutual influence between organizational field…”
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence (2014, background): “…view of strategy and entrepreneurship highlights how formal (i.e., regulations, policies) and informal (i.e., norms, culture) constraints can shape strategic decision making and performance (Peng and Heath, 1996; Peng and Luo, 2000; Davis, 2005; Webb et al ., 2009; Tolbert, David, and Sine, 2011).”
Institutional determinants of university spin-off quantity and quality: a longitudinal, multilevel, cross-country study (2016, background): “To explore this question, we build on institutional theory proposing that changes in formal structures may result in symbolic rather than substantial modifications in operation efficiency (Dimaggio and Powell 1983; Tolbert et al. 2011).”
Institutions and the prevalence of nonstandard employment (2015, background): “This distinction between ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors is also useful in classifying the contextual factors determining the extent and development of solo self-employment (e.g. Gnyawali and Fogel, 1994; Tolbert et al., 2011).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Tolbert, David, and Sine (2010) argue that institutional theory provides an important theoretical lens for understanding why individuals choose a particular form because it provides a framework for describing the sociocultural processes through which ideas and forms emerge and develop legitimacy…”
Overcoming the liability of newness: Entrepreneurial action and the emergence of China's private solar photovoltaic firms (2016, background): “Tolbert et al (2011) cite research showing how changes in the institutional environment (specifically, social movements) have created new opportunities for entrepreneurs to exploit (e.g., Sine et al 2003; Hiatt et al, 2009), and how these entrepreneurs’ actions in turn have an impact on the…”