| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The illusion of diffusion -- Why we embrace novelties : conditions that foster institutional fads -- The fad cycle : emerging -- The fad cycle : surging -- The fad cycle : purging -- Fad dynamics -- Becoming fad-proof. |
| Summary |
Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social institutions.
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Social institutions. |
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Fads -- Social aspects.
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Fads -- Social aspects. |
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Fads. |
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Diffusion of innovations.
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Diffusion of innovations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Best, Joel. Flavor of the month. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 9780520246263 0520246268 (DLC) 2005022128 (OCoLC)61229677 |
| ISBN |
9780520932357 (electronic book) |
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0520932358 (electronic book) |
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1423745523 (electronic book) |
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9781423745525 (electronic book) |
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1598759264 (electronic book) |
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9781598759266 (electronic book) |
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9780520246263 |
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0520246268 |
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128235891X |
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9781282358911 |
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