Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism
Academy of Management ReviewPublished 1 October 1996
Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings
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Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings, Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing together the Old and the New Institutionalism, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1022-1054
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