Putting the World in Orders: Plurality in Organizational Evaluation

Sociological Theory

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 200-227

  Brandtner, Christof ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation; evaluative landscapes; field convergence; organizational theory; plurality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029544272     PISSN: 07352751     EISSN: 14679558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0735275117726104     Document Type: Article

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