Institutional sources of practice variation: Staffing college and university recycling programs

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-56

  Lounsbury, Michael ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2667124     Document Type: Article

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