The stability of exchange networks

Social Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-125

  Doǧan, Gönül ^a   van Assen, Marcel A L M ^a   van de Rijt, Arnout ^b   Buskens, Vincent ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Equality; Exchange networks; Social dilemma; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549122090     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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