Relational collaboration among spatial multipoint competitors

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-111

  Lomi, Alessandro ^a,b   Pallotti, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exponential random graph models; Hospitals; Interorganizational networks; Multipoint competition; Mutual forbearance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855207045     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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