The legal environments of organizations

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 23, Issue , 1997, Pages 479-515

  Edelman, Lauren B ^a   Suchman, Mark C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Environments; Institutional theory; Law; Organizations; Professions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031495629     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.479     Document Type: Article

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