Dear Nihal,

1) No theory can affect particular economic/social movements at the individual (group) level like entrepreneurship. Some theories may be used as the pretext for for large social movements (like Marxism was a formal pretext of different social experiments in 1917-1989 in Russia, China and in other countries, but none of the particular actions in that countries can be found in Marx's writings).

2) Regarding entrepreneurship which is a individual or group actions, there may be specific conditions, laws and contingency factors that trigger entrepreneurship. The examples are golden rushes in California and Alaska, the massive movements of farmers westward in the USA after the Homestead act of 1864, the massive piracy of the XVII century (which was a form of collective entrepreneurship etc.). Institutional theory, especially the new institutionalism, largely ignores the contingency factors in entrepreneurial waves and prefers to look an entrepreneurship as a continuous process.

3) Some institutions (venture funds, business angels, corrupt governments that channel public money into the hands of heirs and friends of top officials) promote entrepreneurship, but again the theory distinguishes between "good" and "bad" sources of capital for entrepreneurs.

So, to make a questionnaire on how social/economic theory, especially specialized academic theory affects something in mass social movement is a total nonsense. You should reformulate you research aim and tasks.

Bests,

Igor Gurkov

Dear Nihal,

Please, have a look at the article in the attachment. It consists a questionnaire/model for evaluation of innovation potential/capability of companies.

Article Measuring the Bulgarian IT Sector Innovations Capabilities T...

Thank you all so much. Appreciating your efforts.