Wer politische Innovationen anstößt, steht vor unternehmerischen Herausforderungen: Ein "Sozialer Unternehmer" trifft Entscheidungen unter Ungewißheit, übernimmt Führungsaufgaben, beeinflußt die Präferenzen von Menschen und setzt visionäre Leitbilder in die Realität um. Der politische...

Innovation often takes place in entrepreneurial ecosystems. We use the history of the Silicon Valley venture capital model and the Hollywood motion picture industry to illustrate how specialized institutions that regulate these entrepreneurial ecosystems emerged through actions by business...

This article provides a review and analysis of institutional entrepreneurship research with a focus on the emergence of this literature within two largely divergent streams: sociology-based institutional theory and economics-based institutional economics. The authors completed a review of 141...

The paper is a contribution to the theory of institutional change. Using a process-based, evolutionary framework, a comparative analysis of economic and political entrepreneurship is provided and implications are derived for the role of political entrepreneurship, and the element of agency in...