Strategies and institutions: A pluralistic account of strategies in the Taiwanese computer industry

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-575

  Hung, Shih Chang ^a   Whittington, Richard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Institutions; Resource based theory; Strategy; Structuration; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039560597     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800401     Document Type: Article

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