Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions

We contribute to the institutions and entrepreneurship literature by examiningthe interactive influence of formal and informal institutions on new business creation,survival, and growth. Prior literature demonstrates how formal and informal institutionsshape the level of entrepreneurship. This paper...

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Autores: Skousen, Bradley, Cheng, Joseph, Eberhart, Robert, Eesley, Charles
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2018
País:España
Recursos:IE
Repositório:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3753
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0060
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3753
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Entrepreneurship
Institutional theory
International management
Entry strategies
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ODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
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spelling Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal InstitutionsSkousen, BradleyCheng, JosephEberhart, RobertEesley, CharlesEntrepreneurshipInstitutional theoryInternational managementEntry strategies53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresasODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económicoWe contribute to the institutions and entrepreneurship literature by examiningthe interactive influence of formal and informal institutions on new business creation,survival, and growth. Prior literature demonstrates how formal and informal institutionsshape the level of entrepreneurship. This paper extends this to examine the cases whenformal and informal institutions conflict with one another to cast an analytic eye on whycountries differ in the type of entrepreneurial activity in terms of entry, survival, andgrowth. We argue that national and regional differences can be better explained by theinteractive influence of formal and informal institutions. Moreover, we argue that infor-mal institutions dominate formal institutions due to the former’s characteristics of deepembeddedness and resistance to change over time. These ideas are presented and summa-rized into a typology of institutional effects on entrepreneurship activity depending on thecombination of formal and informal institutions. The paper concludes with implicationsfor future theory and research on the joint influence of different institutional effects andparticularly on the intersection between institutions and entrepreneurship.yesPublishedInformshttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75202520252018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0060https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3753reponame:Repositorio IEinstname:IEInglésIE Business SchoolIE UniversityEntrepreneurshipAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/37532026-06-15T12:40:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
title Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
spellingShingle Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
Skousen, Bradley
Entrepreneurship
Institutional theory
International management
Entry strategies
53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas
ODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
title_short Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
title_full Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
title_fullStr Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
title_full_unstemmed Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
title_sort Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Skousen, Bradley
Cheng, Joseph
Eberhart, Robert
Eesley, Charles
author Skousen, Bradley
author_facet Skousen, Bradley
Cheng, Joseph
Eberhart, Robert
Eesley, Charles
author_role author
author2 Cheng, Joseph
Eberhart, Robert
Eesley, Charles
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Entrepreneurship
Institutional theory
International management
Entry strategies
53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas
ODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
topic Entrepreneurship
Institutional theory
International management
Entry strategies
53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas
ODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
description We contribute to the institutions and entrepreneurship literature by examiningthe interactive influence of formal and informal institutions on new business creation,survival, and growth. Prior literature demonstrates how formal and informal institutionsshape the level of entrepreneurship. This paper extends this to examine the cases whenformal and informal institutions conflict with one another to cast an analytic eye on whycountries differ in the type of entrepreneurial activity in terms of entry, survival, andgrowth. We argue that national and regional differences can be better explained by theinteractive influence of formal and informal institutions. Moreover, we argue that infor-mal institutions dominate formal institutions due to the former’s characteristics of deepembeddedness and resistance to change over time. These ideas are presented and summa-rized into a typology of institutional effects on entrepreneurship activity depending on thecombination of formal and informal institutions. The paper concludes with implicationsfor future theory and research on the joint influence of different institutional effects andparticularly on the intersection between institutions and entrepreneurship.
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