Cultural adaptation and institutional change: The evolution of vocabularies of corporate governance, 1972-2003

Poetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 163-178

  Ocasio, William ^a   Joseph, John ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 28444461034     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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