Keywords
RationalityIsomorphism (crystallography)Organizational fieldInstitutional theoryPolitical scienceBusinessSociologyEconomic systemEconomicsSocial scienceCrystal structureLawChemistryCrystallography
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- 1983
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 147-160
- Citations
- 9080
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Paul DiMaggio
(1983).
The Iron Caged Revisited : Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.
American Sociological Review
, 48
(2)
, 147-160.