Recovering Materiality in Institutional Work: Prizes as an Assemblage of Human and Material Entities

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-81

  Monteiro, Pedro ^a   Nicolini, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

field configuring events; institutional work; institutionalism; materiality; objects; practice theory; prizes; spaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912033536     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492614546221     Document Type: Article

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