Institutional theory suggests that organizations pursue legitimacy by conforming to isomorphic pressures in their environment. We extend previous research on institutional theory by distinguishing between two definitions of conformity (compliance and convergence) and by taking a comprehensive...

This paper builds on Granovetter's distinction between strong and weak ties and responds to recent calls for a more dynamic, processual and thus comprehensive understanding of knowledge transfer in networks with regard to both the nature of the ties that link firms to novel sources of knowledge...

Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck - Globalisation and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation' Gerda van Roozendaal - Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O'Brien - Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global...

This qualitative study of innovators in the super yacht industry blends longitudinal content analysis with narrative case vignettes to extend nascent theorizing about the antecedents and consequences associated with the arousal of entrepreneurial emotion. The empirically grounded framework...