Organizational responses to public and private politics: An analysis of climate change activists and U.S. oil and gas firms

Organization Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1769-1786

  Hiatt, Shon R ^a   Grandy, Jake B ^a   Lee, Brandon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental sustainability; Organization theory; Private and public politics; Social movements; Technology innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951112427     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2015.1008     Document Type: Article

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