Strategy-as-practice meets neo-institutional theory

Strategic Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-344

  Suddaby, Roy ^a   Seidl, David ^b   Lê, Jane K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Institutional theory; organization theory; practice theory; strategy as practice; theoretical perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881244446     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127013497618     Document Type: Editorial

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