The social construction of organizational knowledge: A study of the uses of coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 653-683

  Mizruchi, Mark S ^a   Fein, Lisa C ^a  

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EID: 0033235160     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2667051     Document Type: Article

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