Institutional entrepreneurship in the sponsorship of common technological standards: The case of Sun Microsystems and Java

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 196-214

  Garud, Raghu ^a   Jain, Sanjay ^a   Kumaraswamy, Arun ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036003226     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3069292     Document Type: Article

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