Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: A Sense-Making Approach

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 525-552

  Baez, Bien ^a   Abolafia, Mitchel Y ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0347017206     PISSN: 10531858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a003546     Document Type: Article

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