Sociological innovation through subfield integration

Social Currents

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 228-256

  Leahey, Erin ^a   Moody, James ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Higher education; Innovation; Multilevel models; Networks; Science knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942902778     PISSN: 23294965     EISSN: 23294973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2329496514540131     Document Type: Article

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