The Social Construction of Organizational Knowledge: A Study of the Uses of Coercive, Mimetic, and Normative Isomorphism
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 44 (4) , 653-683
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2667051
Abstract
Arguing that knowledge in the social sciences is socially constructed through the selective interpretation of major works, we examine the fate of a classic arti...Keywords
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