"Wall Street" meets Wagner: Harnessing institutional heterogeneity

Theory and Society

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-416

  Sgourev, Stoyan V ^a  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Institutional heterogeneity; Multivocality; Opera; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027939990     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: 15737853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-011-9144-6     Document Type: Article

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