This study examines how ventures can leverage relationships with heterogeneous government stakeholders to enhance survival in different institutional environments. We consider how the distinct resources provided from venture ties to military and political actors represent complementary strategic...

Research in institutional logics has yet to fully explain how disruptions of institutional orders affect the performance of organizations that carry logics associated with the disrupted institutional orders, with some studies showing a positive interactive effect and others a negative. We...

We seek to understand whether and how social activism can affect entrepreneurship in the context of an authoritarian regime. Unlike Western democracies, where activism is legal and can foster entrepreneurship through gradual institutional change, social activism and entrepreneurship are...

This paper explores why some policies designed to lower the barriers to entry and close the entrepreneurial gender gap are effective in some settings, yet ineffective in others. We propose that while policy changes can lower the barriers to entrepreneurship, local institutional logics may shape...

Entrepreneurs face a host of potential choices in creating new firms, yet little is known about how multiple institutional actors promoting different practices and technologies can affect entrepreneurial decision-making, especially at the beginning of new sectors and technological lifecycles....

This paper examines how cultural holes that exist at the intersection of institutional fields influence the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Through an exploration of physician-founded ambulatory surgery centers in the United States, we examine how the presence of cultural holes...