Legitimating nascent collective identities: Coordinating cultural entrepreneurship

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 449-463

  Wry, Tyler ^a   Lounsbury, Michael ^a   Glynn, Mary Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutional theory; Organization and management theory; Organizational identity and identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953155824     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0613     Document Type: Article

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