Institutions and Entrepreneurship

By H. Hwang, Walter W. Powell. 2005

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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The interaction of entrepreneurship and institutions (2010, neutral): “Hwang and Powell (2005) consider the creation of standards to guide the activities of organizations – itself a form of institution – as an entrepreneurial act.”
Bankers at the gate: Microfinance and the high cost of borrowed logics (2012, background): “Such logics were associated with a high degree of coherence or cumulativeness amongst their components, reliance on explicit knowledge, and a higher degree of cultural-cognitive comprehensibility (Sine & David, 2010).”
Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations (2013, background): “His argument can be applied to entrepreneurial organisations, which adapt their strategies to fit the opportunities and limitations defined by the institutional context (Hwang and Powell, 2005; Boettke and Coyne, 2009).”
Innovation across Europe: how important are institutional differences? (2011, background): “As such, our approach to institutions relates closely to the strand that sees institutional change as the rulemaking, or the creation of formal laws that define the playing field, enabling certain groups and retarding the efforts of others (Hwang and Powell, 2005).”
Business as Plan B (2015, background): “On the one hand, institutional theorists have long argued that the incentives that lead individuals toward entrepreneurship are embedded in institutional arrangements (North, 1990; Sorenson and Audia, 2000; Hwang and Powell, 2005; Sørensen, 2007; Sine and David, 2010) but have not considered how suc”
Beyond Red Tape and Fools: Institutional Theory in Entrepreneurship Research, 1992–2014 (2017, background): “It characterizes actors who serve as catalysts for structural change to facilitate the emergence of new institutions in which they can realize interests that they value highly (DiMaggio, 1988; DiMaggio & Powell, 1991; Hwang & Powell, 2005).”
Institutional polycentrism, entrepreneurs' social networks, and new venture growth (2013, background): “…activities and thereby influence both the nature and outcomes of entrepreneurs’ social networks (Baumol, 1990; Boettke & Coyne, 2009; Djankov, La Porta, Lopez de Silanes, & Shleifer, 2002; Hwang & Powell, 2005; Owen-Smith & Pow-Please address correspondence regarding this article to Anne S. Tsui.”
Market mediators and the tradeoffs of legitimacy-seeking behaviors in a nascent category (2014, neutral): “While some have suggested that simultaneously fulfilling the role of standards creator and enforcer may hamper successful acceptance of a particular standard or category (Hwang and Powell, 2005), our findings suggest it was critical for CCOF to fulfill both roles in order to retain relevance and con”
Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields (2009, background): “In particular, institutional entrepreneurs are those individuals and organizations that engage in creative activities to produce or change existing institutional arrangements (Hwang & Powell, 2005).”
Agency and Institutions: A Review on Institutional Entrepreneurship (2009, methodology): “A less studied dimension is how institutional entrepreneurs design possible alternative institutional arrangements to support their projects (Hwang and Powell, 2005; Jain and George, 2007; Wijen and Ansari, 2007).”
Varieties of entrepreneurship: exploring the institutional foundations of different entrepreneurship types through ‘Varieties-of-Capitalism’ arguments (2018, background): “Overall, a consensus has emerged that formal and informal institutions (North 1990; Williamson 2000) incentivize individual behaviour, thereby influencing the extent and character of an economy’s entrepreneurial activity (Mueller and Thomas 2000; Hwang and Powell 2005; Acs et al. 2008; Stenholm et a”
Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, neutral): “Entrepreneurship is viewed as a socially constructed behavior (Sine & David, 2010; Webb & Ireland, 2015), and institutions as “the rules of the game” which prescribe, monitor, enforce, and support what is socially acceptable (Baumol & Blinder, 2008; Denzau & North 1994; Mathias, Lux, Crook, Autry,…”