Breaking up is hard to do: Irrational inconsistency in commitment to an industry peer network

Rationality and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-34

  Sgourev, Stoyan V ^a   Zuckerman, Ezra W ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akrasia; Economic sociology; Embeddedness; Rational action; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953278594     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: 14617358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043463110396444     Document Type: Article

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