The role of the external environment is critical to understanding international entrepreneurial behavior. Scholars in this area seek to understand the role that the state and international organizations play in entrepreneurship, often employing an institutional theory perspective to analyze the...

We review research on organizations to highlight prevailing and emerging conceptions for embeddedness. An integrated framework that considers the sources, mechanisms, outcomes, and strategic implications of embeddedness is presented. Also, promising research directions for embeddedness...

By framing the economics versus environment debate as a mixed-motive situation, opportunities become visible that allow greater benefits to all interests in the debate. Yet, social, cultural, and institutional arrangements frame how these interests see these opportunities, creating a barrier to...

In their introduction of 'Debating Rationality: Non-rational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making,' editors Jennifer Halpern and Robert Stern trace the social science foundations of rationality and its research uses, stressing conceptions and applications from multiple research traditions....

The authors motivate social capital arguments at the world-system level through the analysis of world-trade flows and nation status, 1965 to 1980, with specific attention to contextual changes in global trade and stratified effects on participation in trade within it. They generate measures of...

Over the past decade, a new structuralism has begun to emerge in organizational theory. This exciting new research program draws inspiration from the social structural tradition in sociology, but extends that tradition by more broadly conceptualizing social structure as comprised of broader...

This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. We build on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social...