The Rhetoric of Institutional Change

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 297-321

  Brown, Andrew D ^a   Ainsworth, Susan ^b   Grant, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse; identity; institutional logic; myth; power; rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858679324     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611435598     Document Type: Article

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