When Market Information Constitutes Fields: Sensemaking of Markets in the Commercial Music Industry

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 270-284

  Anand, N ^a   Peterson, Richard A ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field Formation; Market Information Regimes; Music Industry; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034413573     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.3.270.12502     Document Type: Article

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