Network forms of organization

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1998, Pages 57-76

  Podolny, Joel M ^a   Page, Karen L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Governance; Networks; Organization; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032357719     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.57     Document Type: Article

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