Obligation, risk, and opportunity in the renaissance economy: Beyond social embeddedness to network co-constitution

The Sociology of the Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 193-227

  McLean, Paul D ^a   Padgett, John F ^b,c,d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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