… on Canada’s west coast to explore the role of macro-cultural discourse and local actors in
the structuration of new institutional fields. We argue that the development of the commercial …

… shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’… macro-cultural
understandings of the nature of whales–from Moby Dick to Free Willy –provided the critical …

… analyses of institutional entrepreneurship should recognize its contingent and emergent
nature. What became clear in our examination of the role of institutional entrepreneurship in the …

… First, we characterize the interlaced material, discursive, and organizational … institutional
entrepreneurs engage with field structures. Third, we argue that institutional entrepreneurship, in …

… This paper examines institutional entrepreneurship in the development of China's … Within
each stage, institutional entrepreneurs conducted activities that supported trajectories of field …

… In this chapter, we review the emerging and rapidly growing body of organizational research
on institutional entrepreneurship. This term refers to the ‘activities of actors who have an …

… a discourse analytic methodology to explore the role of institutional entrepreneurs in the process
of institutional … of the strategies available to institutional entrepreneurs who wish to affect …

… of institutional entrepreneurship. Actors who represented different groups in the field were
engaged in constructing a shared story of the crisis that reflected and further strengthened the …

… Accordingly, we examine work that has linked institutional entrepreneurship to properties
associated with … From Moby Dick to Free Willy: macro-cultural discourse and institutional …