Ties with potential: Social network structure and innovative climate in dutch schools

Teachers College Record

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1983-2017

  Moolenaar, Nienke M ^a   Sleegers, Peter J C ^a   Daly, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84855250473     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
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