Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

Readings in Economic Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 69-93

  Granovetter, Mark ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical economics; Economic action; Industrial society; Neoclassical economics; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948774697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470755679.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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