Chasing shadows: Defining network boundaries in qualitative social network analysis

Qualitative Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-661

  Heath, Sue ^a   Fuller, Alison ^a   Johnston, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Educational decision making; Qualitative social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749150165     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794109343631     Document Type: Article

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