Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency

Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

Volumn 9780521518550, Issue , 2009, Pages 31-58

  Battilana, Julie ^a   D’Aunno, Thomas ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84928049323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511596605.002     Document Type: Chapter

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