Modes of Interorganizational Imitation: The Effects of Outcome Salience and Uncertainty
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 42 (3) , 472-500
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2393735
Abstract
Drawing on neoinstitutional and learning theories, we distinguish three distinct modes of selective interorganizational imitation: frequency imitation (copying ...This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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