Context and sex effects on personal work networks

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-64

  Stackman, Richard W ^a   Pinder, Craig C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Tacoma ^*

Author keywords

Context; Homophily; Personal work networks; Sex effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033248309     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407599161003     Document Type: Article

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