The contingent effects of social network sparseness and centrality on managerial innovativeness

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1180-1203

  Wong, Sze Sze ^a   Boh, Wai Fong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Managerial innovativeness; Social network; Social network centrality; Social network sparseness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911381170     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12086     Document Type: Article

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