From Novel Practice to Consecrated Exemplar: Unity Temple as a Case of Institutional Evangelizing

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1099-1136

  Jones, Candace ^a   Massa, Felipe G ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive emulation; architecture; collective entrepreneurship; collective identity marker; institutional evangelism; institutional work; materiality; profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881126640     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613492073     Document Type: Article

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