Gemachte Märkte: institutionelles Unternehmertum im Forstsektor | Made markets – institutional entrepreneurship in the forestry sector Open Access

Forestry markets are in a constant process of change of their rules of the game. This is due to the fact that preferences, scarcities and technological means are in a steady process of development. However, this process of change in the rules of the game does not only take place, as often assumed, on the political level, but it is a co-evolutionary process of political, administrative and market governance and emergence. The so-called institutional entrepreneurs play a major role in this process of change. The present paper takes a closer look at the activities of those entrepreneurs and their positive and negative effects, and develops an analytical framework, based on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. Current examples of institutional change in the forestry sector are used to illustrate our arguments.