Efficiency and the fix revisited: Informal relations and mock routinization in a nonprofit nursing home

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-247

  Lopez, Steven Henry ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Nursing homes; Routinization; Service work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548273701     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-007-9062-0     Document Type: Article

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