A relationship value perspective of social capital in networks of software SMEs

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 492-501

  Westerlund, Mika ^a   Svahn, Senja ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Networks; Relationship value; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349190285     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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