Institutional Holes and Entrepreneurship in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3456112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keming Yang (0000-0003-0898-7420, University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-389 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2004.00485.x |
| OpenAlex | W1911548306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 23 |
Theories of entrepreneurship and institutions have grown up in partial isolation, but they are actually complementary. By analogy with Ronald Burt's structural holes, the idea of institutional holes calls attention to the ways entrepreneurs create connections among sites kept separate by existing institutions. Especially in transitional economies, entrepreneurs strike a risky balance between acquiring institutional support for new enterprises without allowing institutions to absorb those enterprises, on one side, and creating profit-making connections, on the other. The experience of a daring Chinese entrepreneur illustrates both the exploitation of institutional holes and the perils of institutional entrepreneurship
Analogy · Balance (ability) · Business · China · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Institutional change · Isolation (microbiology) · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Profit (economics) · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Public Administration
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The best of both worlds
College students’ entrepreneurship policy, regional entrepreneurship spirit, and entrepreneurial decision-making
Mixed embeddedness and entrepreneurial activities of rural migrants in the host region
Why Did Universities Start Patenting
Social network and family business
Entrepreneurship in China
Resettlement and adaptation in China's small town urbanization
The emergence of the private entrepreneur in reform era China
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy
The new institutionalism in sociology
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit
Structural Holes
The Architecture of Markets
The Rise of the Western World
Cultural influences on national rates of innovation
Case Study Research
Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
The art of case study research
Ethnography unbound
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
The Creative Response in Economic History
State and Society in China
Method, Process, and Austrian Economics
The Role of the Local State in China's Transitional Economy
A Theory of Market Transition
Local Governments as Industrial Firms
Path dependent societal transformation
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |