Embeddedness, path dependency and social institutions: An economic sociology approach

Current Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-23

  Ghezzi, Simone ^a,b   Mingione, Enzo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Bignaschi ^*  (Italy)

^c Fondazione Bignaschi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Culture; Embeddedness; Entrepreneurship; Kin network; Market; Path dependency; Reciprocity; Social institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846230100     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392107070131     Document Type: Article

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