All in the family: Reply to Burt, Podolny, and van de Rijt, Ban, and Sarkar

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 979-999

  Reagans, Ray E ^a   Zuckerman, Ezra W ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 54749144046     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn037     Document Type: Note

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