Legitimacy as a key factor for organizational success;Legitimidad como factor clave del éxito organizativo

Investigaciones Europeas de Direccion y Economia de la Empresa

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 127-143

  Diez Martin F ^a   Blanco Gonzalez A ^a   Prado Roman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Administration; Institutional Theory; Legitimacy; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864324157     PISSN: 11352523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1135-2523(12)60038-0     Document Type: Article

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