The Sociology of Organizations

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 164-181

  Clegg, Stewart R ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Key Research Centre for Management and Organization Studies   (Australia)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^e EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Gramsci; Institutional logics; Legitimacy; Mimesis; Rethinking the pasts; Sociological elements; Sociology of organizations; Weberian typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888666268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347388.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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