Assembling a field into place: Smart-city development in Japan

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 50, Issue , 2017, Pages 253-279

  Nyberg, Roy A ^a   Yarime, Masaru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commitment; Emergence; Information technology; Material action; Organisational fields; Smart city

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016260348     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000050008     Document Type: Article

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