John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Van De Ven, Andrew H ^a   Lifschitz, Arik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary research; Institutional change; Institutional innovation; John R. Commons; Organization studies; The economics of collective action

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066518986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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