Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation.
Professional associations have been explored as institutional agents and can be powerful mechanisms for instigating practices into an industry. Despite this identification there is a lack of research which delves deeper and explores the contexts that allow strategies which contribute to institutiona...
| Published in: | Business History Vol. 67; no. 6; pp. 1490 - 1512 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2025
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