Discourse revisited: Dimensions and employment of first-order strategy discourse during institutional adoption

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 935-956

  Paroutis, Sotirios ^a   Heracleous, Loizos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse; institutional theory; multibusiness firms; strategic change; strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; MULTIBUSINESS FIRMS; STRATEGIC CHANGES; STRATEGY AS PRACTICES;

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84879422819     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2052     Document Type: Article

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