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Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
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Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted experiences. We present institutional change as a creative and experimental response to emergent or competing logics. This conception of institutions has implications for how we theorize about economic transformation, recognizing that processes of institutional change are set in motion by endogenous attempts by economic actors to make sense of and act upon contradictory aspects of their varied institutional lives.
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- Authors
- Lowe, N. J., & Feldman, M. P.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lowe, Nichola J.
- Venue
- Geography Compass
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1749-8198 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2602849470
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 7.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- cdr.lib.unc.edu
- Locations
- Geography Compass (publishedVersion)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Social Sciences › Development › Regional Development and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Theory and Institutions
- Keywords
- institutions, institutional change, entrepreneurship, economic transformation, endogenous change, competing logics, innovation
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