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Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
Ronald L. Jepperson
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University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
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