Comparative Social Capital: Networks of Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in China and Russia

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 397-419

  Batjargal, Bat ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China and Russia; culture; entrepreneur; institution; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448971683     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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