Institutional Translation through Spectatorship: Collective Consumption and Editing of Symbolic Organizational Texts by Firms and their Audiences

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1249-1279

  Lamertz, Kai ^a   Heugens, Pursey P M A R ^b  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 70450214696     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609337935     Document Type: Article

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