Reflections on the societal conditions for the pervasiveness of entrepreneurial behavior in western societies

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-173

  Brandl, Julia ^a   Bullinger, Bernadette ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Institutional theory; Modern actorhood; Socialization; Societal knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749084855     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492608329400     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Aldrich, H.E., & Kenworthy, A.L. (1999). The accidental entrepreneur: Campbellian antinomies and organizational foundings. In J. A. C. Baum & B. McKelvey (Eds.), Variations in organization science (pp. 19-33). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Aldrich, H.E., & Martinez, M.A. (2001). Many are called, but few are chosen: An evolutionary perspective for the study of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 25, 41-56.
3. Audretsch, D.B. (2007). The entrepreneurial society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
4. Augoustinos, M. (1998). Social representations and ideology: Towards the study of ideological representations. In U. Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social (pp. 156-169). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
5. Barley, S.R., & Kunda, G. (1992). Design and devotion: Surges of rational and normative ideologies of control in managerial discourse. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37, 363-400.
6. Barley, S.R., & Kunda, G. (2004). Gurus, hired guns, and warm bodies. Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press.
7. Baumol, W. (1990). Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive and destructive. Journal of Political Economy, 98, 893-921. (Pubitemid 126159511) (Pubitemid 126159511)
8. Beckert, J. (1999). Agency, entrepreneurs, and institutional change. The role of strategic choice and institutionalized practices in organizations. Organization Studies, 20, 777-799.
9. Benson, J.K. (1977). Organizations: A dialectical view. Administrative Science Quarterly, 22, 1-21.
10. Berger, B. (1991). The culture of entrepreneurship. San Francisco: ICS Press.
11. Berger, P.L., Berger, B., & Kellner, H. (1974). The homeless mind. Modernization and consciousness. New York: Vintage.
12. Berger, P.L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
13. Berger, P.L., & Luckmann, T. (1995). Modernity, pluralism and the crisis of meaning. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation.
14. Blumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
15. Casson, M. (1982). The entrepreneur. An economic theory. Oxford, UK: Robertson.
16. Chell, E., & Allman, K. (2003). Mapping the motivations and intentions of technology orientated entrepreneurs. R&D Management, 33, 117-134. (Pubitemid 36539887) (Pubitemid 36539887)
17. Chia, R. (1995). From modern to postmodern organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 16, 579-604.
18. Clegg, S., Carter, C., & Kornberger, M. (2004). Get up, I feel like being a strategy machine. European Management Review, 1, 21-28.
19. Davis, G.F., Diekmann, K.A., & Tinsley, C.H. (1994). The decline and fall of the conglomerate firm in the 1980s: The deinstitutionalization of an organizational form. American Sociological Review, 59, 547-570.
20. De Clerq, D., & Arenius, P. (2006). The role of knowledge in business start-up activity. International Small Business Journal, 24, 339-358.
21. Derfus, P.J., Maggitti, P.G., Grimm, C.M., & Smith, K.G. (2008). The red queen effect: Competitive actions and firm performance. Academy of Management Journal, 51, 61-80.
22. Deutschmann, C. (1997). Die Mythenspirale. Eine wissenssoziologische Interpretation industrieller Rationalisierung. Soziale Welt, 47, 55-70. (Pubitemid 127433671) (Pubitemid 127433671)
23. Deutschmann, C. (1998). Marx, Schumpeter and the myths of economic rationality. Thesis Eleven, 53, 45-64.
24. Deutschmann, C. (2001). The promise of absolute wealth. Capitalism as a religion. Thesis Eleven, 66, 32-56.
25. DiMaggio, J. (1988). Interest and agency in institutional theory. In L. G. Zucker (Ed.), Institutional patterns and organizations. Culture and environment (pp. 3-21). Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
26. Dobbin, F.R. (1994). Cultural models of organization: The social construction of rational organizing principles. In Diane Crane (Ed.), The sociology of culture. Emerging theoretical perspectives (pp. 117-141). Oxford: Blackwell.
27. Douglas, M. (1982). Essays in the sociology of perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
28. Downing, S. (2005). The social construction of entrepreneurship: Narrative and dramatic processes in the coproduction of organizations and identities. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29, 185-204. (Pubitemid 41659602) (Pubitemid 41659602)
29. Drucker, F. (1993). Innovation and entrepreneurship, practice and principles. New York: HarperBusiness.
30. du Gay, P. (1996). Consumption and identity at work. London: Sage.
31. du Gay, P., Salaman, G., & Rees, B. (1996). The conduct of management and the management of conduct: Contemporary managerial discourse and the constitution of the 'competent' manager. Journal of Management Studies, 33, 263-282. (Pubitemid 126063150) (Pubitemid 126063150)
32. Fiet, J.O. (2001). Education for entrepreneurial competency: A theory-based activity approach. In R. H. Brockhaus, G. E. Hills, H. Klandt, & H. Welsch (Eds.), Entrepreneurship education: A global view (pp. 78-93). Hants: Ashgate.
33. Fletcher, D.E. (2006). Entrepreneurial processes and the social construction of opportunity. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 18, 421-440. (Pubitemid 44305028) (Pubitemid 44305028)
34. Frank, D.J., & Meyer, J.W. (2002). The profusion of individual roles and identities in the postwar period. Sociological Theory, 20, 86-105.
35. Frank, D.J., Meyer, J.W., & Miyahara, D. (1995). The individualist polity and the prevalence of professionalized psychology: A cross-national study. American Sociological Review, 60, 360-377.
36. Franke, N. (2002). Zehn Thesen zu Entrepreneurship. Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, 52, 206-213. (Pubitemid 36028157) (Pubitemid 36028157)
37. Freytag, A., & Thurik, R. (2007). Entrepreneurship and its determinants in a cross-country setting. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 17, 117-131.
38. Girard, R. (1965). Deceit, desire and the novel: Self and other in literary structure. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
39. Glassman, A.M., Moore, R.W., Rossy, G.L., Neupert, K., Napier, N.K., Jones, D.E., et al. (2003). Academic entrepreneurship: Views on balancing the Acropolis and the Agora. Journal of Management Inquiry, 12, 353-374. (Pubitemid 37445885) (Pubitemid 37445885)
40. Hasselbladh, H., & Kallinikos, J. (2000). The project of rationalization: A critique and reappraisal of neoinstitutionalism in organization studies. Organization Studies, 21, 697-720.
41. Hegele, C., & Kieser, A. (2001). Control the construction of your legend or someone else will: An analysis of texts on Jack Welch. Journal of Management Inquiry, 10, 298-309. (Pubitemid 33791283) (Pubitemid 33791283)
42. Heider, F. (1958). The psychology of interpersonal relations. New York: John Wiley.
43. Hewstone, M., & Augoustinos, M. (1998). Social attributions and social representations. In U. Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social (pp. 60-76). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
44. Hills, G.E., & Morris, M.H. (1998). Entrepreneurship education: A conceptual model and review. In M. G. Scott, P. Rosa, & H. Klandt (Eds.), Educating entrepreneurs for wealth creation (pp. 38-58). Hants: Ashgate.
45. Hirsch, M., & Lounsbury, M. (1997). Ending family quarrel. Toward a reconciliation of "old" and "new" institutionalism. American Behavioral Scientist, 40, 406-418. (Pubitemid 127018487) (Pubitemid 127018487)
46. Hirschman, A.O. (1977). The passions and the interests. Political arguments for capitalism before its triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
47. Hwang, H., & Powell, W.W. (2005). Institutions and entrepreneurship. In S. A. Alvarez, R. Agarwal, & O. Sorenson (Eds.), Handbook of entrepreneurship research: Disciplinary perspectives (pp. 201-232). New York: Springer.
48. Iacocca, L., & Novak, W. (1984). Iacocca. An autobiography. Toronto: Bantam Books.
49. Jepperson, R.L. (2002). The development and application of sociological neoinstitutionalism. In J. Berger & M. Zelditch (Eds.), New directions in contemporary sociological theory (pp. 229-266). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
50. Jones, E.E. (1989). The framing of competence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 15, 477-492.
51. Kieser, A. (1989). Organizational, institutional, and societal evolution: Medieval craft guilds and the genesis of formal organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 34, 540-564.
52. Kirzner, I.M. (1973). Competition and entrepreneurship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
53. Kirzner, I.M. (1979). Perception, opportunity, and profit: studies in the theory of entrepreneurship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
54. Knight, F.H. (1942). Profit and entrepreneurial functions. Journal of Economic History, 2, 126-132.
55. Knight, F.H. (1964). Risk, uncertainty and profit. New York: Kelley.
56. Kor, Y.Y., Mahoney, J.T., & Michael, S.C. (2007). Resources, capabilities and entrepreneurial perceptions. Journal of Management Studies, 44, 1187-1212.
57. Lamont, M. (1992). Money, morals, and manners. The culture of the French and the American upper-middle class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
58. Lavoie, D. (1991). The discovery and interpretation of profit opportunities: Culture and the Kirznerian entrepreneur. In B. Berger (Ed.). The culture of entrepreneurship (pp. 33-51). San Francisco: ICS Press.
59. Lawrence, T.B., & Suddaby, R. (2006). Institutions and institutional work. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of organizations studies (2 nd ed., pp. 215-254). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
60. Locke, R.R., & Schoene, K.E. (2004). The entrepreneurial shift: Americanization in European management education during the high-technology era. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
61. Lounsbury, M., & Glynn, M.A. (2001). Cultural entrepreneurship: Stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources. Strategic Management Journal, 22, 545-564. (Pubitemid 33612458) (Pubitemid 33612458)
62. Lounsbury, M., & Strang, D. (in press). Social entrepreneurship. Success stories and logic construction. In S. Heydemann & D. Hammack (Eds.), Philanthropic projections of power: Sending institutional logics abroad.
63. Luckmann, T. (1992). Theorie des sozialen Handelns. Berlin: de Gruyter.
64. Lukes, S. (1973). Individualism. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
65. Malach-Pines, A., Levy, H., Utasi, A., & Hill, T.L. (2005). Entrepreneurs as cultural heroes. A cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 20, 541-555. (Pubitemid 41288343) (Pubitemid 41288343)
66. McCarthy, D.J., Puffer, S.M., & Shekshnia, S.V. (1993). The resurgence of an entrepreneurial class in Russia. Journal of Management Inquiry, 2, 125-137.
67. McClelland, D.C. (1961). The achieving society. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
68. Meyer, J.W. (2008). Reflections on institutional theories of organizations. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, R. Suddaby, & K. Sahlin-Andersson (Eds.), Handbook of organizational institutionalism (pp. 790-812). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
69. Meyer, J.W., Boli, J., Thomas, G.M., & Ramirez, F.O. (1997). World society and the nation-state. American Journal of Sociology, 103, 144-181. (Pubitemid 127373752) (Pubitemid 127373752)
70. Meyer, J.W., Boli, J., & Thomas, G.W. (1989). Ontology and rationalization in the Western cultural account. In G. M. Thomas, J. W. Meyer, F. O. Ramirez, & J. Boli (Eds.), Institutional structure: Constituting state, society, and the individual (pp. 12-38). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
71. Meyer, J.W., & Jepperson, R.L. (2000). The "actors" of modern society: The cultural constitution of social agency. Sociological Theory, 18, 100-120.
72. Meyer, J.W., & Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 83, 340-363.
73. Miles, R.E., Snow, C.C., & Miles, G. (2007). The ideology of innovation. Strategic Organization, 5, 423-435.
74. Munir, K.A., & Phillips, N. (2005). The birth of the 'Kodak moment': Institutional entrepreneurship and the adoption of new technologies. Organization Studies, 26, 1665-1687. (Pubitemid 41728740) (Pubitemid 41728740)
75. Nadesan, M.H. (2002). Engineering the entrepreneurial infant: Brain science, infant development toys, and governmentality. Cultural Studies, 16, 401-432.
76. Oyserman, D., & Markus, H.R. (1998). Self as social representation. In U. Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social (pp. 107-128). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
77. Perren, L., & Jennings, L. (2005). Government discourses on entrepreneurship: Issues of legitimization, subjugation, and power. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29, 173-184. (Pubitemid 41659601) (Pubitemid 41659601)
78. Pinchot, G. (1986). Intrapreneuring. Why you don't have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur. New York: Perennial Library.
79. Sahlin-Andersson, K., & Engwall, L. (2002). Carriers, flows, and sources of management knowledge. In K. Sahlin-Andersson & L. Engwall (Eds.), The expansion of management knowledge: Carriers, flows, and sources (pp. 3-32). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
80. Schumpeter, J.A. (1968). The theory of economic development: an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
81. Scott, W.R. (1992). Organizations: rational, natural and open systems. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
82. Searle, J.R. (1995). The construction of social reality. New York: Free Press.
83. Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 25, 217-226.
84. Silverman, D., & Jones, J. (1973). Getting in: The managed accomplishment of correct selection outcomes. In J. Child (Ed.), Man and organization (pp. 63-106). London: Allen and Unwin.
85. Spicer, A., & Jones, C. (2005). Outline of a genealogy of the value of the Entrepreneur. In G. Erreygers & G. Jacobs (Eds.), Language, communication and the Economy (pp. 179-197). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
86. Steyaert, C., & Katz, J. (2004). Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society: Geographical, discursive and social dimensions. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 16, 179-196. (Pubitemid 38673277) (Pubitemid 38673277)
87. Swedberg, R. (Ed.). (2000). Entrepreneurship: The social science view. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
88. Thornton, H. (1999). The sociology of entrepreneurship. Annual Review of Sociology, 25, 19-46.
89. Tolbert, S., & Zucker, L.G. (1996). The institutionalization of institutional theory. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, & W. R. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of organization studies (pp. 175-190). London: Sage.
90. von Hippel, E. (2005). Democratizing innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
91. Von Mises, L. (1950). Human action: A treatise on economics. New Haven: Yale University Press.
92. Weber, M. (1978). Economy and society. An outline of interpretive sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press.
93. Weick, K.E. (1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
94. Zelditch, M. (2001). Theories of legitimacy. In J. T. Jost & B. Major (Eds.), The psychology of legitimacy. Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice and intergroup relation (pp. 33-53). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
95. Zilber, T. (2002). Institutionalization as an interplay between actions, meanings and actors: The case of a rape crisis center in Israel. Academy of Management Journal, 45, 234-254.
96. Zilber, T. (2006). The work of the symbolic in institutional processes: Translations of rational myths in Israeli high tech. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 281-303.
97. Zucker, L.G. (1977). The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence. American Sociological Review, 42, 726-743.