Institutional Work in The Wire: An Ethological Investigation of Flexibility in Organizational Adaptation

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-120

  Zundel, Mike ^a   Holt, Robin ^a   Cornelissen, Joep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bateson; ecological thinking; institutional work; process studies; schismographs; The Wire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871233001     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492612440045     Document Type: Article

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