Enablers and Time: How Context Shapes Entrepreneurship in Institutional and Policy Change

Scholars in institutional theory and policy process are rediscovering the importance of agency in accounting for change of different forms, intensities and origins. In particular, scholars increasingly acknowledge the need to go beyond perspectives that advocate the supremacy of approaches based on structure over accounts of situated agency, and vice versa. It seems more fruitful to think about change as the result of interaction between the two, to try to understand how structure and agency mutually influence each other (Garud, Hardy, & Maguire, 2007, pp. 690–691; see also Bakir & Jarvis this volume).