Rebels with a cause: Formation, contestation, and expansion of the de novo category "Modern Architecture," 1870-1975

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1523-1545

  Jones, Candace ^a   Maoret, Massimo ^a   Massa, Felipe G ^a   Svejenova, Silviya ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artifact codes; Categories; Institutional logics; Materials; Modern architecture; Network textual analysis; Symbols; Theorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872417920     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0701     Document Type: Article

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