Diffusion in organizations and social movements: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1998, Pages 265-290

  Strang, David ^a   Soule, Sarah A ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; Discourse; Interorganizational relations; Network analysis; Protest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032347320     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.265     Document Type: Article

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