Social capital, firm embeddedness and regional development

Regional Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1065-1077

  Cooke, Philip ^a   Clifton, Nick ^a   Oleaga, Mercedes ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Networks; Regional development; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); Social capital

Indexed keywords

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 30744453582     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400500328065     Document Type: Article

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