Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

Organization Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 414-434

  Hoffman, Andrew J ^a   Ocasio, William ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accountability; Attention; Environmental Protection; Events; Identity; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035617308     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.12.4.414.10639     Document Type: Article

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