Movements as Political Conditions for Diffusion: Anti-Corporate Movements and the Spread of Cooperative Forms in American Capitalism

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 653-682

  Schneiberg, Marc ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

contestation; cooperatives; corporations; diffusion; movements; politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878907817     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613479226     Document Type: Article

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