Responding from that Vantage Point: Field Position and Discursive Strategies of Legitimation in the U.S. Wireless Telegraphy Field

Organization Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1417-1450

  Kim, Phillip H ^a   Croidieu, Grégoire ^b   Lippmann, Stephen ^c  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

content analysis; historical; institutional theory; legitimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989941192     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840616634132     Document Type: Article

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