Organizational Legitimacy and the Liability of Newness

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Administrative Science Quarterly

• Publication date

  1986-06-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Sociology, Business

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  DOI 10.2307/2392787
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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