The institutional embeddedness of local inter-firm networks: A leverage for business creation

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-315

  Johannisson, Bengt ^a   Ramírez Pasillas, Marcela ^a   Karlsson, Gösta ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Furniture industry; Graph analysis; Industrial district; Personal networking; Small business

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LINKAGE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MANUFACTURING; NETWORKING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

EID: 0036819631     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985620210142020     Document Type: Article

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