Back in the USSR: Introducing Recursive Contingency Into Institutional Theory

Organization Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-90

  Deroy, Xavier ^a   Clegg, Stewart ^b  

^a NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Institutional change; Institutional logics; Institutional work; Luhmann; Prague Spring; Recursive contingency; Soviet Communist Party

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918524900     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614544556     Document Type: Article

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