Does social capital improve labour productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 454-480

  Sabatini, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Labour productivity; SEMs; Small and Medium Enterprises; SMEs; Social capital; Social networks; Structural equations models

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449118420     PISSN: 14624621     EISSN: 17415187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2008.019782     Document Type: Article

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