Organizational discretion in responding to institutional practices: Hospitals and cesarean births

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-28

  Goodrick, Elizabeth ^a   Salancik, Gerald R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030306444     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393984     Document Type: Article

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