Abstract
Scholars in institutional theory and policy process are rediscovering the importance of agency in accounting for change of different forms, intensities and origins. In particular, scholars increasingly acknowledge the need to go beyond perspectives that advocate the supremacy of approaches based on structure over accounts of situated agency, and vice versa. It seems more fruitful to think about change as the result of interaction between the two, to try to understand how structure and agency mutually influence each other (Garud, Hardy, & Maguire, 2007, pp. 690–691; see also Bakir & Jarvis this volume).
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The literature review is based on a selection made by the author of the most-cited articles on institutional entrepreneurship and policy entrepreneurship on Google Scholar and the Thomson Reuters ISI database. It is not a systematic review of all the existing literature on the subjects, but a selection of the most-referenced work.
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I thank Caner Bakir for this distinction.
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Galanti, M.T. (2018). Enablers and Time: How Context Shapes Entrepreneurship in Institutional and Policy Change. In: Bakir, C., Jarvis, D. (eds) Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70350-3_2
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