Institutional entrepreneurship in North American lightning protection standards: Rhetorical history and unintended consequences of failure

Business History

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-97

  McGaughey, Sara L ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

institutional entrepreneurship; institutional logics; institutional work; lightning protection; rhetorical history; standards

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENTREPRENEUR; LIGHTNING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870445714     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.687537     Document Type: Article

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