The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship: An Introduction

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus

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“…Eventually, the socially constructed reality in which entrepreneurs and regulators operate emerges from and is redefined by their actions. Our study thus responds to the call by Douhan and Henrekson (, p. 22), who caution scholars not to be ‘restricted to analyzing how institutions affect the level and type of entrepreneurial activity’, but instead to also ‘consider how entrepreneurial activities affect institutions’. The shared construction of reality by all stakeholders involved in proto‐institutional emergence extends beyond the assumption that regulators shape institutions in a one‐sided manner.…”

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The Emergence of Proto‐Institutions in the New Normal Business Landscape: Dialectic Institutional Work and the Dutch Drone Industry

Smolka

Heugens

2019

J Management Studies

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In the current business landscape, in which technology‐enabled entrepreneurship is part of the New Normal, regulatory institutional structures are in constant flux. Previous studies have framed the challenges facing entrepreneurs in mature organizational fields as avoiding the power of overbearing regulators long enough to establish the legitimacy of their ventures. In fields typified by New Normal conditions, however, regulatory frameworks for evaluating new technology‐enabled ventures are often still lacking. Regulators may choose to actively reach out to entrepreneurs to arrive at a better understanding of the radical technological changes and high‐frequency entrepreneurial behavioural adaptations that occur in these settings. To grasp how novel regulatory institutional structures come about in the New Normal business landscape, we conducted a processual study of the emergence of a new technology that is the Dutch remotely piloted aircraft systems (drone) industry between 2000 and 2018. Our findings show that regulatory proto‐institutions result from dialectic institutional work in the form of structured interactions between entrepreneurs and regulators. Specifically, we present a process model that reveals how new regulatory structures evolve in contexts where high levels of technological and behavioural change induce systemic uncertainty, and enlarge the interdependence between entrepreneurs and regulators. We suggest that our process theory of proto‐institutional emergence generalizes towards other organizational fields in which technology‐enabled entrepreneurship has become the main driver of growth. Theoretically, our findings speak to the literatures on institutional work, proto‐institutional emergence, and the New Normal business landscape.

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The Emergence of Proto‐Institutions in the New Normal Business Landscape: Dialectic Institutional Work and the Dutch Drone Industry

Smolka

Heugens

2019

J Management Studies

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“…A similar conceptual positions can be found in the work ofDouhan and Henrekson (2007) who provide a typology of the entrepreneurial impact on institutions.…”

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Property rights distribution and entrepreneurial rent-seeking in Romanian forestry: a perspective of private forest owners

Nichiforel

Schanz

2009

Eur J Forest Res

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In the framework of a broader political economics approach, this paper intends to enhance the understanding of the role of rent-seeking practices in the delineation of clear property rights in forestry. The research background is provided by the institutional changes occurring in the Romanian forestry sector as a consequence of the transition period and the accession to the European Union. The entrepreneurial approach to rent-seeking requires clarifications of the perspective under which private forest owners are analysed in order to position this study within ongoing discussions regarding the role of rentseeking and its social impact. The conceptual framework employed distinguishes between rents resulting from entrepreneurship in conventional production functions and rents resulting from institutional entrepreneurship. A typology of entrepreneurial rent-seeking is developed for further understanding of the effects resulting from changes in the institutional setting of property rights. Using a qualitative approach, in the form of a case study, the research reveals perspectives of Romanian forest owners regarding barriers to production inherent in the current distribution of rights. Despite the extent of perceived profit-seeking barriers, owners' entrepreneurial rent-seeking actions intended to change property rights in their favour appear limited and constrained. Hence, identified hypotheses regarding the institutional context dependency of entrepreneurial rentseeking provide the basis for the future empirical identification of the role of institutional entrepreneurship within the forest production system.

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“…But rent-seeking should also be discussed in comparison with a reference situation that could be far from the benchmark of the perfectly competitive model. In some circumstances -for a reference situation that is not the first best but could be more comparable with the actual situation of a given jurisdiction, the net effects could be positive, as has been suggested by some authors (Samuels and Mercuro, 1984;Douhan and Henrekson, 2007). Distorted allocation may render rent-seeking necessary to attain greater efficiency.…”

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“…The rent at stake here is to be distinguished from entrepreneurial creation of rents: rents due to better use of resources, arising from specific assets or technology, securable (by patents, for example) but limited in time from the pressure of competitors and progress (Douhan and Henrekson, 2007; see also Alvarez, 2007;Douhan and Henrekson, 2008a).…”

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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

Dejardin¹

2011

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered (also for a reference situation departing from the first best). Some policy implications are finally briefly evoked.

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The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship: An Introduction

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

The Emergence of Proto‐Institutions in the New Normal Business Landscape: Dialectic Institutional Work and the Dutch Drone Industry

The Emergence of Proto‐Institutions in the New Normal Business Landscape: Dialectic Institutional Work and the Dutch Drone Industry

Property rights distribution and entrepreneurial rent-seeking in Romanian forestry: a perspective of private forest owners

Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

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