More than adopters: Competing influences in the interlocking directorate

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 688-703

  Connelly, Brian L ^a   Johnson, Jonathan L ^b   Tihanyi, Laszlo ^c   Ellstrand, Alan E ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Diffusion; Governance; Interlocks; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959267973     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0555     Document Type: Article

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