Moving Beyond Firm Boundaries: A Social Network Perspective on Reputation Spillover

Corporate Reputation Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-108

  Yu, Tieying ^a   Lester, Richard H ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

network structure; spillover; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954089696     PISSN: 13633589     EISSN: 14791889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/crr.2008.6     Document Type: Article

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