Varieties of knowledge and their use in business and management studies: Conditions and institutions

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 581-609

  Whitley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authority sharing; Business and management studies; Causal mechanisms; Contextual independence; Horizontal isolation; Institutional regimes; Internal closure; Knowledge types and use; Public science systems; Vertical isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849124147     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607088152     Document Type: Article

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