How Institutions Form: Loose Coupling as Mechanism in Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
This article uses a mid-century text to reengage a late-1970s concept to answer a new century question. The authors return to Alvin Gouldner's classic (1954) study Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy to reexamine the "coupling" concept in contemporary institutionalism in a way that eng...
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2006
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