Standardization Cycles: A Process Perspective on the Formation and Diffusion of Transnational Standards

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 737-762

  Botzem, Sebastian ^a   Dobusch, Leonhard ^b  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

input legitimacy; output legitimacy; standard diffusion; standard formation; standardization process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873842744     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612443626     Document Type: Article

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