Institutional entrepreneurship and agency

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-481

  Weik, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Functionalism; Institutional entrepreneur; Institutional work; Institutionalist sociology; Managerialist bias; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355161096     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2011.00467.x     Document Type: Article

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