Replication Data for: Policy entrepreneurship across boundaries: a systematic literature review

While policy entrepreneurs are assigned an important role in crossing policy boundaries and addressing complex problems, we have limited understanding of the process. This paper systematically reviews 51 studies on conditions, strategies, and implications of cross-boundary entrepreneurship. Findings show that (1) the literature predominantly mentions issue promotion and coalition-building as cross-boundary strategies; (2) vertical boundary-crossing is discussed more frequently than horizontal boundary-crossing; (3) the most reported boundary-crossing function is to expand issue arenas; (4) conditions that enable cross-boundary strategies include institutional overlap, issue interpretation, power vacuum, overruling policies, lacking resources; and (5) implications of entrepreneurship include raised opposition, increased competition over leadership, augmented complexity hindering collective action, raised costs and resources, and issues regarding trust, legitimacy, and authority. Policy entrepreneurship allows for micro-level insights in the emergence of cross-boundary processes. We suggest future research to focus on causal processes between conditions, strategies, and implications to better understand their interplay.

尽管政策企业家（policy entrepreneurship）在跨越政策边界、应对复杂难题中被赋予了重要角色，但学界对其运作过程的认知仍较为有限。本文系统性综述了51项关于跨边界创业（cross-boundary entrepreneurship）的条件、策略与影响的研究。研究结果显示：（1）现有文献主要将议题倡导与联盟构建视作跨边界核心策略；（2）垂直边界跨越的讨论频次高于水平边界跨越；（3）最常被提及的跨边界功能为拓展议题场域；（4）支撑跨边界策略的条件包括制度重叠、议题诠释、权力真空、政策否决、资源匮乏；（5）政策创业的影响包括引发反对意见、加剧领导力竞争、增加阻碍集体行动的复杂度、推高成本与资源消耗，以及涉及信任、合法性与权威的相关问题。政策企业家为跨边界过程的涌现提供了微观层面的分析视角。我们建议未来研究应聚焦于条件、策略与影响之间的因果过程，以更好地理解三者间的互动关系。