The relationship between ceremonial adoption of popular management practices and the motivation for practice adoption and diffusion in an American MNC

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3849-3866

  Collings, David G ^a   Dick, Penny ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ceremonial adoption; institutional theory; internalization and integration; legitimacy; MNCs strategy; practice transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858990396     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.561233     Document Type: Article

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