Social networks and the adverse selection problem in agency relationships

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 767-775

  Dahlstrom, Robert ^a   Ingram, Rhea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038102797     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(01)00261-2     Document Type: Article

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