Mechanisms of Control in Emergent Interorganizational Networks.
The delegation of decision-making capacity from one actor to another-known variously as authority or control-is a central phenomenon of organizational sociology. Despite its theoretical and practical significance, however, the dynamics of control within disrupted settings (such as disasters) remain...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 516 - 547 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2012
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