Importation as innovation: Transposing managerial practices across fields

Strategic Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-383

  Boxenbaum, Eva ^a   Battilana, Julie ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

diversity management; importation of management practices; innovation; institutional entrepreneurship; institutional logics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734386     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127005058996     Document Type: Article

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