Institutional reform and the reorganization of family support aervices

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1843-1861

  Blackler, Frank ^a,b   Regan, Suzanne ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascent from the abstract to the concrete; Collaboration; Institutional reform; Neo institutionalism; The Third Way

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845458233     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606067991     Document Type: Review

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