Institutional ideology and industry-level action: A macro analysis of corporate legitimation in the United States petroleum industry

This dissertation is a multi-method, institutional theoretic study that sought to understand how organizational communication in the United States petroleum industry functioned as a device for corporate legitimation over the years 1975-1990. The study investigated the symbolic dimension of organizat...

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Main Author: Prasad, Anshuman
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1994
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9510527