Small Groups as Context for Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Exploration of the Emergence of Commercial Microfinance in Bolivia

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 533-557

  Dorado, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

inhabited institutions; institutional agency; institutional entrepreneurship; microsociology; small groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876155100     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612470255     Document Type: Article

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