Local government as institutional entrepreneur: public-private collaborative partnerships in fostering regional entrepreneurship

Xing, Y., Liu, Y. and Cooper, C. L. (2018) Local government as institutional entrepreneur: public-private collaborative partnerships in fostering regional entrepreneurship. British Journal of Management, 29 (4). pp. 670-690. ISSN 1467-8551 doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12282

Abstract/Summary

Due to the intertwined nature of private and public interests, local governments tend to use collaborative partnerships involving entrepreneurs to promote regional entrepreneurship. However, there is still a gap in the theory with regard to the mechanisms underpinning these collaborative partnerships. Drawing on institutional entrepreneurship literature, we identify the enabling conditions and articulate the role played by local government as an institutional entrepreneur in fostering regional entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial public-private collaborative partnerships. This paper explicates two distinct mechanisms—the establishment of new institutional arrangements by the institutional entrepreneur, and the advocation of diffusion by other actors—that underpin entrepreneurial public-private collaborative partnerships. Importantly, we underscore the crucial role played by returnee entrepreneurs who interact collaboratively with the institutional entrepreneur in affecting institutional change and fostering regional entrepreneurship. We conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with local government officials, entrepreneurs, and high-tech park managers, in conjunction with performing content analysis of policy documents in a peripheral region of China—areas that have been largely neglected in scholarly research. This paper concludes with some theoretical and policy implications for public management and entrepreneurship.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/81586
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/1467-8551.12282
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Publisher	Wiley
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