Social capital, embeddedness, and market interactions: An analysis of firm performance in UK regions

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-106

  Cooke, Phil ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Firm performance; Regions; SME; Social capital; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847780173     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760601132170     Document Type: Review

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