Sovereignty as a site of innovation: Institutional entrepreneurship in Native American tribal nations
研究美国原住民部落如何通过创业性自决来创新和重塑主权制度，基于对18位部落领袖的访谈和161个部落的数据分析，揭示主权本身成为创新场所。
The sovereign right of self-governance for Native nations has been both contentious and unevenly applied throughout its deeply rooted history in the United States. As a vital aspect of tribal sovereignty, this research explores the outcomes of entrepreneurial self-determination of Native American Tribes. Using a mixed methods approach, our study leans on qualitative interviews of 18 tribal leaders to catalyze a quantitative analysis consisting of data from 161 Native American Tribes collected from the US Federal Register, the National Indian Gaming Commission, and from a Freedom of Information Act request of the US Department of Interior. Data are used to better understand the role that entrepreneurial self-determination plays in Native American Tribes and its effects on economic and cultural sovereignty. What we find is that the institution of sovereignty itself is a site of innovation, where tribal leaders are not only defending but innovating it, reinterpreting what it means and how it functions through modern entrepreneurial mechanisms. The research contributes to innovation policy and institutional theory by theorizing sovereignty as a contested institution that is reshaped by entrepreneurial self-determination under conditions of institutional multiplicity.