Multiple studies validated effects of institutions on the diffusion of scientific innovations, but there is a lack in explaining emergence and change of institutions. The institutional entrepreneurship approach faces this limitations and models, how institutional entrepreneurs diffuse an...

The post-industrialized world has reached the vanguard of the knowledge based society. There the creation of knowledge and delivering of education have become a pivotal asset. In the era of worldwide integration of goods, services, and people, higher education organizations today heavily depend...

The food and agricultural value chains have experienced constant changes throughout the last decades having important organizational and economic implications that have shaped global markets. Among these changes, a rapid globalization and the increasingly openness of international trade have...