Networks of mind and networks of organizations: The map metaphor in business network research

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-389

  Geiger, Susi ^a   Finch, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Managerial cognition; Network pictures; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951257686     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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