Presenting Structural Innovation in an Institutional Environment: Hospitals' Use of Impression Management
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 45 (3) , 494-522
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2667107
Abstract
This research examines how the first organizations to abandon an institutionalized, taken-for-granted structure and adopt a radically different form presented t...Keywords
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