Hot lights and cold steel: Cultural and political toolkits for practice change in surgery

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 482-502

  Kellogg, Katherine C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative case study; Cultural opportunities; Cultural opportunity structure; Ethnographic; Ethnography; Institutional change; Law and society; Medical; Microfoundations; Microinstitutional change; Microprocesses; Organizational culture; Political opportunities; Political Opportunity structure; Professions; Social movements; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953143757     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0539     Document Type: Article

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