Can you have your cake and eat it too? Structural holes' influence on status accumulation and market performance in collaborative networks

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-108

  Shipilov, Andrew V ^a   Li, Stan Xiao ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 49749138609     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.53.1.73     Document Type: Article

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