The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 932-950

  Henfridsson, Ola ^a   Yoo, Youngjin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital technology; Eliminatory exploration; Imaginative projection; Innovation trajectory; Institutional entrepreneurship; Liminality; Mechanisms; Path creation; Process model; Reflective dissension; Trajectory shifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901298356     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0883     Document Type: Article

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