The turtle-hare race story revisited: Social capital and resource accumulation for firms from emerging economies

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-275

  Li, Lei ^a   Lin, Zhiang ^b   Arya, Bindu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging economies; Relational embeddedness; Resource accumulation; Social capital; Structural embeddedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149188186     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-007-9068-x     Document Type: Article

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