Institutional Complexity and Individual Responses: Delineating the Boundaries of Partial Autonomy

Organization Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 103-127

  Martin, Graham ^a   Currie, Graeme ^b   Weaver, Simon ^c   Finn, Rachael ^d   McDonald, Ruth ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

healthcare; institutional logics; institutions; managerialism; markets; National Health Service; professionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009106942     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840616663241     Document Type: Article

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