Applications of the Institutional Approach to Entrepreneurship Across Global Contexts

Traditionally, studies on entrepreneurship are focused on individual dispositions and motivations that make a person more or less likely to become an entrepreneur. More recent work, however, has drawn attention to the social foundations – norms and other attributes of collectivities – that affect group members' propensity to start new businesses, what economic sectors those new businesses are started in, and the processes through which those new businesses are formed, as well as how they affect other forms of entrepreneurial behaviors such as new market entry by established organizations. This latter tradition underscores the importance of understanding variations across different global contexts in the rates at which new organizations are founded, the areas in which those organizations are founded, the process by which they are organized, and the ease with which organizations can enter into new markets. Thus, in this symposium we bring together a group of scholars to explore entrepreneurship in global co...