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Burns and his collaborators have published more than 10 books and numerous articles on theory and methodology as well as more empirically and policy-oriented in the areas of socio-economics, markets and market regulation, the sociology of technology, environment, and natural resources, administration
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and relational control, organizational dissonance and contradiction, and public policy paradigm theory were formulated and applied in empirical investigations.
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