Theories of network exchange: Anomalies, desirable properties, and critical networks

Social Networks

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-271

  van de Rijt, Arnout ^a   van Assen, Marcel ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Exchange networks; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649191672     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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