Emerging institutions: Pyramids or anthills?

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 423-441

  Czarniawska, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Garbage can model; Institution; Narrative; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749108640     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609102282     Document Type: Article

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