Organizational social capital, structure and performance

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 583-608

  Andrews, Rhys ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational performance; Organizational social capital; Public sector; Quantitative analysis; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951642885     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709342931     Document Type: Article

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