Organizational susceptibility to institutional complexity: Critical events driving the adoption and implementation of the ethics and compliance officer position

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1722-1743

  Chandler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Business ethics; Critical events; Implementation; Institutional complexity; Institutional theory; Organizational susceptibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911383310     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0927     Document Type: Article

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