دانلود رایگان مقاله موسسات، کارآفرینی و تکامل مشترک در کسب و کار بین المللی

ABSTRACT

A recent and promising trend in international business and international management research has been to consider institutions not only as taken-for-granted constraints that need to be accommodated, but also the outcomes of agency; purposive action by individuals, firms, coalitions and other actors. We elaborate the development of research in this vein, and advocate a more nuanced view of the nexus between agency and institutions of different kinds and residing at various levels of analysis, and the associated coevolutionary processes. Recent developments from cognate fields – particularly, institutional entrepreneurship and institutional work – offer a theoretical foundation for further insights into the nexus of institutions, agency and co-evolution. We discuss the papers that appear in this special issue and how they further develop and expand our understanding of institutions, agency and co-evolution, and conclude with questions and directions for future research.

5. Concluding

remarks In this special issue, we set out to offer a platform for emerging research in IB and IM pertaining to institutions, entrepreneurship and co-evolution. In particular we sought to invite richer conceptualisations and conversations around the nexus of institutions – of diverse types and residing at various levels of analysis – and agency as purposeful, albeit not necessary strategic or successful, action. The four papers in this issue clearly offer a glimpse of the exciting possibilities that arise when drawing on richer and more context-specific depictions of institutions and institutional differences than is typical; seeking nuanced understandings of agency and institutional work; and when looking beyond the dominant approaches and concepts in international business studies by drawing on or combining insights from adjacent fields. Together, these papers exemplify the emerging trend in IB/IM research whereby the purposeful action of individual and organisational actors in attempting to create, maintain and disrupt institutions is more explicitly studied. To this extent, we – the guest-editors and the contributors to this issue – can claim partial success in our objectives.