Putting the Organization Back into Organization Theory: Action, Change, and the “New” Institutionalism

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-88

  Hirsch, Paul M ^a   Lounsbury, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84990329996     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105649269761015     Document Type: Article

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