Manufacturing relations: An empirical study of the organization of production across multiple networks

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-332

  Lomi, Alessandro ^a   Pattison, Philippa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interorganizational networks; Network motifs; P star models; Resource dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744831476     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0190     Document Type: Article

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