Social capital, strategic relatedness and the formation of intraorganizational linkages

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 925-939

  Tsai, Wenpin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraorganizational linkages; Network formation; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001545433     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0266(200009)21:9<925::AID-SMJ129>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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