Institutions and Entrepreneurship -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the volume editors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Institutions and entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Institutional environments and entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial action and the institutional environment -- Institutions and Entrepreneurship: Contributions in This Volume -- References -- Chapter 2. Entrepreneurs and professionals: The mediating role of institutions -- Professions and institutions -- Entrepreneurs and institutions -- Entrepreneurs and professions -- Research implications -- Concluding comment -- References -- Chapter 3. Categorization by association: Nuclear technology and emission-free electricity -- A sociology of associations perspective -- Research setting and methodology -- Nuclear power in the energy field -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Networks as institutional support: law firm and venture capitalist relations and regional diversity in high-technology IPOs -- Introduction -- Capacity, connection, and community -- Data and method -- Findings -- Limitations and next steps -- Conclusions and implications -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Institutional rivalry and the entrepreneurial strategy of economic development: business incubator foundings in three states -- History of business incubator and the role of states -- Method -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. The shape of things to come: Institutions, entrepreneurs, and the case of hedge funds -- Scope conditions: The definition of entrepreneurship -- Founding organizations: Entrepreneurship as an institution -- Designing organizations: Institutional sources of structure -- Maintaining organizations: Institutional influences on survival.

How institutions shape entrepreneurial enterprises: An illustration -- Conclusions: Directions for future research -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Rhetoric that wins clients: entrepreneurial firms use of institutional logics when competing for resources -- Which institutional logics craft winning messages? -- Research methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A. Example of a request for proposal -- Appendix B. Example of SOQ -- Appendix C. Words (underlined), Modifiers (bolded), and Factor Loadings -- Chapter 8. Creating attention and favorability during the emergence of new industries: The case of film in America, 1894-1927 -- Legitimacy barriers to new industry emergence -- Sample, data, and measures -- Estimation and results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to ''the next big thing'' in satellite radio -- Organizational leadership in entrepreneurship and institutionalization -- The case of satellite radio -- Organizational leaders as agents of institutionalization -- Discussion and conclusions -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10. Why effective entrepreneurial innovations sometimes fail to diffuse: Identity-based interpretations of appropriateness in the Saint-Émilion, Languedoc, Piedmont, and Golan Heights wine regions -- Diffusion studies and identities -- Research design -- Contributions and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11. Beam me up, Scott(ie)excl institutional theorists' struggles with the emergent nature of entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurship: from population dynamics to great cases -- How does institutional theory help us understand entrepreneurship?.

Gaps and puzzles: the parts institutional theory can't reach -- Finding institutional theory's place -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.