Social capital and the search for information: Examining the role of social capital in information seeking behavior in Mongolia

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 883-894

  Johnson, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34247129617     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20561     Document Type: Article

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