The present study contributes to the literature on institutional entrepreneurship by exploring the phenomenon of failure – particularly, how it is construed as such and de-emphasized through face-saving efforts by institutional entrepreneurs. We draw on extant research on institutional...

It is widely recognized that corporations need to beinnovative in order to survive and this need has supported a "mini-industry" of management research and consulting on the topic ofinnovation. However, because the fields of management research and businesseducation have themselves become rigid...