Understanding types of organizational networking behaviors in the UK manufacturing sector

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1154-1166

  Thornton, Sabrina C ^a,b   Henneberg, Stephan C ^c   Naudé, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abductive approach; Industrial network approach; Network management; Organizational networking; Strong and weak tie

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886726822     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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