Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Structuring of Organizations and Markets

The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Walgenbach, Peter ^a   Meyer, Renate E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Giddens; Institutional motivation; Organizational institutionalism; Strategic action; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231423.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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