Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to “the next big thing” in satellite radio

Mary Ann Glynn; Chad Navis

doi:10.1108/S0277-2833(2010)0000021013

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Research in the Sociology of Work

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Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to “the next big thing” in satellite radio

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Title:	Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to “the next big thing” in satellite radio
Author(s):	Mary Ann Glynn, Chad Navis
Volume:	21 Editor(s): Wesley D. Sine, Robert J. David ISBN: 978-0-85724-239-6 eISBN: 978-0-85724-240-2
Citation:	Mary Ann Glynn, Chad Navis (2010), Entrepreneurship, institutional emergence, and organizational leadership: tuning in to “the next big thing” in satellite radio, in Wesley D. Sine, Robert J. David (ed.) Institutions and Entrepreneurship (Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.257-286
DOI:	10.1108/S0277-2833(2010)0000021013 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	Selznick (1957) differentiated between institutional leadership, concerned with organizational identity and character, and administrative management, concerned with organizational operations or efficiencies. We investigated the timing and extent of each of these by leaders of new ventures during market emergence. Examining the case of satellite radio, we analyzed 235 executive statements in 244 press releases, 1998–2005, for the start-ups, XM and Sirius. We found that leaders, across the organizational hierarchy and over time, interpreted entrepreneurial action in terms of the venture's identity, but institutional leadership was primarily associated with CEOs and administrative management with lower echelon executives. Institutional leadership was higher during market emergence and commercialization, while administrative management increased with the growth and establishment of satellite radio as a market category.