Audience structure and the failure of institutional entrepreneurship

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 275-313

  Kahl, Steven J ^a   Liegel, Gregory J ^a   Yates, Joanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cognition; History of business computing; Innovation; Institutional entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886483466     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-3322(2012)0000029013     Document Type: Article

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