Rule bending, sociological citizenship, and organizational contestation in microfinance

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-117

  Canales, Rodrigo ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Embeddedness; Microfinance; Organizational routine; Sociological citizenship; Street level bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952168231     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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