World society, institutional theories, and the actor

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-20

  Meyer, John W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; otherhood; phenomenology; rationalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955649294     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102506     Document Type: Article

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