Organizational structures as recursively constructed systems of agency and constraint: Compliance and resistance in the context of structural conditions

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-390

  Wicks, David ^a  

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EID: 0041175220     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1998.tb00728.x     Document Type: Article

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