Creating community networks: Can sporting events offer meaningful sources of social capital?

Managing Leisure

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-56

  Misener, Laura ^a   Mason, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 85009625634     PISSN: 13606719     EISSN: 1466450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13606710500445676     Document Type: Article

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