Motivations for self-assembling into project teams

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 251-264

  Zhu, Mengxiao ^a   Huang, Yun ^b   Contractor, Noshir S ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipartite network; Exponential random graph models ERGM; Online game; Project teams; Self assembly mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877643543     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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