Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935

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  1983

• Venue

  Administrative Science Quarterly

• Publication date

  1983-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Political Science, History

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  DOI 10.2307/2392383
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