How many names are enough? Identifying network effects with the least set of listed contacts

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 331-337

  Merluzzi, Jennifer ^a   Burt, Ronald S ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Name generators; Personal networks; Returns to brokerage; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880575623     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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