Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector

Organizations in the public sector were historically prominent in management and organization studies. Yet, our field has largely moved away from studying organizations in the public sector, due in part to the institutional embeddedness of most management and organization scholars in business schools. The aspiration of this panel symposium is to bring our field back to its roots and, from that vantage, explore avenues for conducting important, interesting, and generative management research going forward. To accomplish this goal, we bring together perspectives from institutional theory, culture, public management, and entrepreneurship to engage in a conversation around the central question: How do public-sector organizations and institutions change through institutional entrepreneurship?