Institutional Entrepreneurship and Agency

Institutional Flexibility and Entrepreneurship

This paper addresses a theoretical puzzle regarding how institutions enhance individual entrepreneurial behavior. We leverage a unique research setting to extend institutional theory into the realm of entrepreneurship by introducing and testing the concept of institutional flexibility. More flexible institutions foster entrepreneurship in allowing, rather than restricting individual choices. Th...

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

Institutional Entrepreneurship for Knowledge Regions

This paper investigates conceptually the institutional change process and innovation underpinning the knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional entrepreneurship. The main aim is to raise institutional entrepreneurship among the debated concepts in regional development studies. The paper sets out to discuss the following question: What kind of conceptual framew...

Institutional Entrepreneurship: Higher Education in Hong Kong

Traditionally, universities have sought to maintain or enhance their competitive position with activities chiefly directed at student recruitment, particularly through the use of aggressive promotional activities. With the tumult and dynamism in the present environment, university administrators cannot rely primarily on student recruitment efforts for success. Rather, they will need to be proac...

Agency and institutional influences on franchising decisions

Article history: Received 3 March 2008 Received in revised form 12 May 2009 Accepted 12 May 2009 While the franchising literature has typically relied on agency theory, efficiency considerations may not fully explain decisions to expand through franchising or company ownership. In this study, I re-examine franchising decisions using insights from institutional theory. The key tenet of instituti...