Building an institutional field to corral a government: A case to set an agenda for organization studies

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 777-805

  Barley, Stephen R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate political action; Corporate power; Institutional fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953842306     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610372572     Document Type: Article

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