Social capital, communities, and the firm

Social Capital at the Community Level: An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 44-80

  Markeson, Bjorn ^a,b   Deller, Steven C ^b  

^a Nichols College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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