Airline alliances: When competitiveness can be approached with specific social networks

Competitiveness Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 304-322

  Saglietto, Laurence ^a  

^a GREDEG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Airlines; Graph theory; Social networks; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650258355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10595420910977425     Document Type: Article

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