Playing well together: Creating corporate social capital in strategic alliance networks

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1690-1708

  Knoke, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social capital; Global information sector; Network evolution; Organizational field net; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349240745     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764209331533     Document Type: Article

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