Investigating the role of social capital in innovation: sparse versus dense network

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 891-909

  Alguezaui, Salma ^a   Filieri, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Information networks; Innovation; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Open systems; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993027464     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271011084925     Document Type: Review

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