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New book announcement: Institutions and Entrepreneurship

  • 1.  New book announcement: Institutions and Entrepreneurship

    Posted 12-04-2010 17:45
    *apologies for cross-posting*
     
    Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 21, ‘Institutions and Entrepreneurship’. For full information please see below:
     
    Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 21, ‘Institutions and Entrepreneurship’. Edited by Wesley D. Sine and Robert J. David
     
    ISBN: 9780857242396
    ISSN: 0277-2833
     
    Pub. Date: 25 October 2010
     
    Please visit the website for more information or to purchase the book.
     
    Synopsis:
     
    In this volume, we examine how the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial organizations, and how entrepreneurs create and manipulate their institutional environment. 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.
     
    This volume represents the cutting edge of research on the institutional approach to entrepreneurship. It features articles from leading organizational sociologists. A variety of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches are used, and empirical contexts range from satellite radio to film to nuclear power.
     
    Table of Contents
     
    Institutions and Entrepreneurship
    Wesley D. Sine and Robert J. David

    Entrepreneurs and Professionals: The Mediating Role of Institutions
    W. Richard Scott

    Categorization by Association: Nuclear Technology and Emission-Free Electricity
    Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman and Peter Karnøe

    Networks as Institutional Support: Law Firm and Venture Capitalist Relations and Regional Diversity in High-Technology IPOs
    Helena Buhr and Jason Owen-Smith

    Institutional Rivalry and the Entrepreneurial Strategy of Economic Development: Business Incubator Foundings in Three States
    Paul Ingram, Jiao Luo and Joseph P. Eschun Jr

    The Shape of Things to Come: Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds
    Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt

    Rhetoric that Wins Clients: Entrepreneurial Firms Use of Institutional Logics when Competing for Resources
    Candace Jones, Reut Livne-Tarandach and Lakshmi Balachandra

    Creating Attention and Favorability during the Emergence of New Industries: The Case of Film in America, 1894 –1927
    Stephen J. Mezias , Theresa K. Lant, Christopher M. Mezias and Justin I. Miller

    Entrepreneurship, Institutional Emergence, and Organizational Leadership: Tuning in to “The Next Big Thing” in Satellite Radio
    Mary Ann Glynn and Chad Navis

    Why Effective Entrepreneurial Innovations Sometimes Fail to Diffuse: Identity-Based Interpretations of Appropriateness in the Saint-Émilion, Languedoc, Piedmont, and Golan Heights Wine Regions
    Grégoire Crodieu and Philippe Monin

    Beam Me Up, Scott(ie)! Institutional Theorists’ Struggles with the Emergent Nature of Entrepreneurship
    Howard E. Aldrich
     
    Gemma Halder
    Assistant Commissioning Editor
    Emerald Group Publishing Limited