Market Meets Community: Institutional Logics as Strategic Resources for Development Work

Organization Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 709-733

  Venkataraman, Hemalatha ^a   Vermeulen, Patrick ^a   Raaijmakers, Aafke ^a   Mair, Johanna ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

case study; institutional theory; qualitative research design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964978314     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840615613370     Document Type: Article

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