Economics of Social Capital: Implications for Organizational Performance

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 802-816

  Akdere, Mesut ^a   Roberts, Paul B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

Author keywords

HRD implications; organizational performance; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992784297     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422308325007     Document Type: Article

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