List of Contributors.Acknowledgments. About the volume Editors. Institutions and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs and professionals: The mediating role of institutions. Categorization by association: Nuclear technology and emission-free electricity. Networks as institutional support: law firm and venture capitalist relations and regional diversity in high-technology IPOs. Institutional rivalry and the entrepreneurial strategy of economic development: business incubator foundings in three states. The shape of things to come: Institutions, entrepreneurs, and the case of hedge funds. Rhetoric that wins clients: entrepreneurial firms use of institutional logics when competing for resources. Creating attention and favorability during the emergence of new industries: The case of film in America, 1894-1927. Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to "the next big thing" in satellite radio. Why effective entrepreneurial innovations sometimes fail to diffuse: Identity-based interpretations of appropriateness in the Saint-Emilion, Languedoc, Piedmont, and Golan Heights wine regions. Beam me up, Scott(ie)! institutional theorists' struggles with the emergent nature of entrepreneurship. Research in the sociology of work. Research in the sociology of work. Copyright page.

Examines how the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial organizations, and vice-versa.