Inter-epistemic power and transforming knowledge objects in a biomedical network

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1667-1686

  McGivern, Gerry ^a   Dopson, Sue ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedical innovation; epistemic communities; knowledge; networks; objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650350396     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610380808     Document Type: Article

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