There are increasing attentions on the role of entrepreneurship in promoting economic change and innovation from both researchers and policy-makers.The economic assumptions in entrepreneurship research are under-social- ized that indeed overlooks the social embeddedness of entrepreneurial activities or the social determinants of innovation. Entrepreneurial opportunities,as the promise of new venture's creation and growth,also induce to the problems of legit- imacy as a liability of newness,which indicates the paradox essential of entrepreneurship on legitimacy.This paper is focus on the institutional influence on the growth and creation of new organizations and economic activities and its mech- anism,as well as the entrepreneur's choices and responses to such institutional arrangement and pressures.