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A Review of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship

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Institutional theory is one of the major theories underpinning not only organization and management research, but also entrepreneurship studies. In this paper, we will review the existing literatures that employ institutional perspective to understand entrepreneurship and those applying entrepreneurial perspective to address the “paradox of embedded agency” which impedes the endogenous development of the institutional theory to understand the current status of the field and future research possibilities.

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  1. School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Hao-zhe Chen

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  1. Industrial Engineering Institution of CM, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

    Ershi Qi

  2. Industrial Engineering Institution of CM, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

    Jiang Shen

  3. College of Management and Economics Industrial Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

    Runliang Dou

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Chen, Hz. (2013). A Review of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38442-4_77

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