Overcoming inaction through collective institutional entrepreneurship: Insights from regime theory

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1079-1100

  Wijen, Frank ^a   Ansari, Shahzad ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Collective action; Collective institutional entrepreneurship; Global regulatory institution; Institutional theory; Kyoto Protocol; Public policy; Regime theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250369681     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607078115     Document Type: Article

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