From hierarchies to network firms

Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 350-363

  Bar, François ^a   Simard, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80054632018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446211304.n17     Document Type: Chapter

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