Agency in national innovation systems: Institutional entrepreneurship and the professionalization of Taiwanese IT

Research Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 526-538

  Hung, Shih Chang ^a   Whittington, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation system; Institutional change; Institutional entrepreneurship; Organizational form

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS; FAMILY BUSINESS; HARD DISK DRIVE; INNOVATION SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; IT FIRMS; NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORM; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; POLICY MAKERS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HARD DISK STORAGE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 79953252889     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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