Suspended in self-spun webs of significance: A rhetorical model of institutionalization and institutionally embedded agency

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-36

  Green, Sandy Edward ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Nohria, Nitin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62649169769     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.36461725     Document Type: Article

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