Institutional work amidst the financial crisis: Emerging positions of elite actors

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-214

  Riaz, Suhaib ^a   Buchanan, Sean ^b   Bapuji, Hari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Global financial crisis; Institutional change; Institutional theory; Institutional work; Media framing; Rhetoric; Subprime mortgage crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953905078     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410389630     Document Type: Article

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