Measuring enterprises' investments in social capital: A pilot study

Regional Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1079-1094

  Westlund, Hans ^a   Nilsson, Elin ^b  

^a Swedish Inst Growth Policy Studies   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corporate social capital; Embeddedness; Firms' social networks; Social capital investment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; INVESTMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 30744475755     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400500328164     Document Type: Article

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