Social capital as a decision aid in strategic decision-making in service organizations

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 734-747

  Jansen, Rob J G ^a   Curşeu, Petru L ^a   Vermeulen, Patrick A M ^a   Geurts, Jac L A ^a   Gibcus, Petra ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EIM Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Networking; Service industries; Small to medium sized enterprises; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955941846     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111130823     Document Type: Article

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