Implementing new institutional logics in pioneering organizations: The burden of justifying ethical appropriateness and trustworthiness

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-359

  Sonpar, Karan ^a   Handelman, Jay M ^b   Dastmalchian, Ali ^c  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change; Institutional logics; Justify ethical appropriateness; Trust; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954063794     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0045-9     Document Type: Article

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