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...

It has long been held that business start-ups contribute to economic development through job creation, innovation, and the competitive disciplining of markets. While the effects of new venture formation on job creation and innovation have been investigated extensively, relatively little...

While entrepreneurial activity has been an important force for social and ecological sustainability; its efficacy is dependent upon the nature of market incentives. This limitation is sometimes explained by the metaphor of the prisoner's dilemma, which we term the green prison. In this prison,...