The Institutionalization of Rational Organization@@@Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.

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  1985

• Venue

  Contemporary Sociology

• Publication date

  1985-09-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology

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  DOI 10.2307/2069507
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  Semantic Scholar

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