If these walls could talk: The mutual construction of rganizational space and legitimacy

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 713-731

  De Vaujany, François Xavier ^a   Vaast, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imbrication; Legitimacy; Longitudinal case study; Organizational identity; Sociomateriality; Spatial legacies; Spatial practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901327535     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0858     Document Type: Article

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