Institutional Sources of Boundary-Spanning Structures: The Establishment of Investor Relations Departments in the Fortune 500 Industrials

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-42

  Rao, Hayagreeva ^a   Sivakumar, Kumar ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Corporate Governance; Institutional Theory; Investor Relations; Mimesis; Shareholder Activism; Social Movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033406573     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.1.27     Document Type: Article

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