Social Networks and Rural Development: LEADER in Romania

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-431

  Marquardt, Doris ^a   Möllers, Judith ^a   Buchenrieder, Gertrud ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; COMPETITIVENESS; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84867103619     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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