From press to e-media? the transformation of an organizational field

Organization Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 875-896

  Mazza, Carmelo ^a,b   Pedersen, Jesper Strandgaard ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business press; Field transformation; Institutional change; Mass media; Organizational field

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242775434     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840604042407     Document Type: Article

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