Networks, Diversity, and Productivity: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Teams

Organization Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 502-517

  Reagans, Ray ^a   Zuckerman, Ezra W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diversity; Performance; Research and Development; Social Capital; Social Network Analysis; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035620125     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.12.4.502.10637     Document Type: Article

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