Keeping our mission, changing our system: Translation and organizational change in natural foods co-ops

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-67

  Haedicke, Michael A ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD HANDLING; HISTORY; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIC FOOD; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COMMERCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; FOOD, ORGANIC; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 84855518446     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2011.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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