Capitalizing on connections: Social capital and strategic management

Social Capital: Reaching Out, Reaching In

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 205-236

  Nahapiet, Janine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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