Institutional entrepreneurship in building an environmental protection system for the people's Republic of China

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1013-1034

  Child, John ^a   Lu, Yuan ^b   Tsai, Terence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Environmental protection system; Field formation; Institutional entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250366298     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607078112     Document Type: Article

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