Inhabiting Institutions: Critical Realist Refinements to Understanding Institutional Complexity and Change

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 927-947

  Delbridge, Rick ^a   Edwards, Tim ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conditioned action; critical realism; embedded agency; inhabited institutions; institutional logics; new institutionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879809966     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613483805     Document Type: Article

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