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JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS CALL FOR PAPERS
Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Co-evolution in International Business
While the strategic importance of institutions to firms’ performance is well recognised in IB, the nexus between institutions and agency (i.e., purposeful action by entrepreneurial individuals, groups or organisations) remains under-developed.
Early perspectives in neo-institutional theory emphasised the power of institutions to determine patterns of action and organisation, thereby explaining the convergence of MNEs and managerial practices within the same institutional environment. Institutions, however, do not only constrain, but also are outcomes of human agency. Organisational actors (individuals, firms, coalitions, etc.,) are not only bound by institutions, but also enact and reconstruct them. Indeed, ‘institutional work’ and the role that organisations and individuals play in institutional creation, maintenance and change has come to the fore in academic debates, albeit primarily outside IB.
The aim of this JWB special issue is to encourage in IB this emerging and more nuanced view of the nexus between agency and institutions, and to stimulate research that promotes new theory and empirical, public policy and practitioner insights on the relationship between institutions (residing at various levels of analysis) and agency in IB.
Please see the full call at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-world-business/call-for-papers/institutions-entrepreneurship-and-co-evolution/
Deadline: 6 October 2013