Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1023-1033

  Lawrence, Thomas B ^a   Leca, Bernard ^b   Zilber, Tammar B ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

institutional work; institutions; materiality; reflexivity; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881149878     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613495305     Document Type: Article

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