Broken Rules and Constrained Confusion: Toward a Theory of Meso-Institutions

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-104

  Droege, Scott ^a   Johnson, Nancy Brown ^b  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

institutional theory; KEYWORDS China; transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949086941     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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