Understanding radical organizational change: Bringing together the old and the new institutionalism

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1022-1054

  Greenwood, Royston ^a   Hinings, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0030511668     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMR.1996.9704071862     Document Type: Article

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