States of Connectivity: New Questions and New Directions

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 267-273

  Kolb, Darl G ^a   Caza, Arran ^b   Collins, Paul D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

connectivity; flow; hyper connectivity; hypo connectivity; requisite connectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857515605     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611431653     Document Type: Review

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