Exploring mediators: Effects of the composition of organizational affiliation on organization survival and mediator performance

Organization Science

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 891-906

  Sasson, Amir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Banking; Bankruptcy; Composition; Market mediation; Structural embeddedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349129228     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1080.0363     Document Type: Article

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