Breaking the wave: The contested legitimation of an alien organizational form

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 828-852

  Delmestri, Giuseppe ^a,d   Wezel, Filippo Carlo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d JKU Linz   (Austria)

Author keywords

cultural distance; Longitudinal; neoinstitutional theory; organizational ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960755558     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2011.22     Document Type: Article

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