TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi T1 - Entrepreneurship in and around institutional voids: A case study from Bangladesh JF - Journal of Business Venturing N2 - In many developing countries those living in poverty are unable to participate in markets due to the weakness or complete absence of supportive institutions. This study examines in microcosm such institutional voids and illustrates the activities of an entrepreneurial actor in rural Bangladesh aimed at addressing them. The findings enable us to better understand why institutional voids originate and to unpack institutional processes in a setting characterized by extreme resource constraints and an institutional fabric that is rich but often at odds with market development. We depict the crafting of new institutional arrangements as an ongoing process of bricolage and unveil its political nature as well as its potentially negative consequences. KW - Institutional entrepreneurship KW - Institutional voids KW - Bricolage KW - Development KW - Social entrepreneurship Y1 - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2008.04.006 SN - 0883-9026 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 419 EP - 435 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi A1 - Ganly, Kate T1 - Institutional voids as spaces of opportunity JF - European Business Forum N2 - The article discusses how institutional voids can be spaces of opportunity for companies. Institutional void refers to the absence of supporting institutions in certain economy. Institutions are shared conceptions and constraints that shape human interaction. They constitute the rules of the game, for doing business, for social interaction, and for human behavior in general. For motivated entrepreneurs, institutional voids is perceived as opportunities. Two examples are presented to illustrate the nature of institutional voids in Bangladesh and India. Y1 - 2007 UR - https://search.proquest.com/docview/224660584?accountid=11379 SN - 1469-6460 VL - 31 SP - 34 EP - 39 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi T1 - Entrepreneurship for social impact: Encouraging market access in rural Bangladesh JF - Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society N2 - Purpose – In many developing countries those living in poverty are unable to participate in markets due to the weakness or complete absence of supportive institutions. This study aims to examine, in microcosm, such an institutional void and to illustrate the strategy and activities employed by an entrepreneurial actor in rural Bangladesh in addressing it. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an in-depth case study. Data were gathered over two years from field interviews, archives, and secondary sources. Findings – The data illustrate how market access for the poorest of the poor is facilitated through the creation of platforms for participation in the economy and broader society. The authors conceptualize this process as the crafting of new institutional arrangements and as resource and institutional bricolage occurring in parallel. Practical implications – The study offers insights for development agencies, policy makers and companies on how to combat poverty, fight corruption, and stimulate social and economic change. Originality/value – The paper enriches current thinking on institutions and entrepreneurship as well as strategies for social impact. KW - Design and development KW - Entrepreneurialism KW - Organizations KW - Markets Y1 - 2007 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/14720700710820579 SN - 1472-0701 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 493 EP - 501 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi T1 - Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight JF - Journal of World Business N2 - Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This article puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate future research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship. Y1 - 2006 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2005.09.002 SN - 1090-9516 VL - 41 IS - 1 SP - 36 EP - 44 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi ED - Lawrence, Thomas B. ED - Suddaby, Simon Roy ED - Leca, Bernard T1 - Bringing change into the lives of the poor: Entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries T2 - Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations N2 - The powerful imagery of entrepreneurship as a means to induce and explain institutional change is gaining momentum (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006; Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006). In response to criticisms that institutional theory was chiefly being used to explain homogeneity and persistence, important efforts have been devoted to restoring human agency in explanations of endogenous institutional change (DiMaggio, 1988; Sewell, 1992; Emirbayer & Mische, 1998). However, the image of the entrepreneur as institutional change agent has also been a source of controversy among institutional theorists, especially when accompanied by voluntarist, un-embedded conceptions of individual action (Holm, 1995; Leca & Naccache, 2006). As a result we observe vivid scholarly discussions on how to solve the “paradox of embedded agency”– i.e. on explaining how institutional change is possible if actors are fully conditioned by the institutions that they wish to change (Holm, 1995; Seo & Creed, 2002; Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006). The current debate is important and we welcome more agent-oriented views on institutions. The purpose of this chapter is to advance institutional theory by rethinking various aspects of institutional work (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006; DiMaggio, 1988) and thereby to contribute new insights into the paradox of embedded agency. We do so by challenging and breaking dominant patterns in current empirical research. While previous research on institutional entrepreneurship has predominantly looked at elite and/or powerful actors (DiMaggio, 1988; Fligstein & Mara-Drita, 1996) who assume either peripheral (Leblebici, Salancik, Copay & King, 1991) or central (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006) positions, we focus instead on institutional work carried out by actors with limited power and very few resources. Y1 - 2009 SN - 9780511590351 SP - 92 EP - 119 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi ED - Mair, Johanna ED - Robinson, Jeffrey ED - Hockerts, K. T1 - Social entrepreneurship as institution building T2 - International Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship Research KW - Gemeinwirtschaft KW - Institutionelle Infrastruktur KW - Entwicklungsländer KW - Institutionalismus Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-230-54315-7 SP - 144 EP - 159 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Martí, Ignasi T1 - Must social-entrepreneurship be nonprofit? JF - Business Week Y1 - 2007 ER -