Responding to Institutional Complexity: The Role of Identity

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-39

  Kodeih, Farah ^a   Greenwood, Royston ^b  

^a NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

institutional complexity; institutional logics; organizational identity; status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891669636     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613495333     Document Type: Article

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