Conceptual spaces and the consequences of category spanning

Sociological Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 252-286

  Kovács, Balázs ^a   Hannan, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Books; Category spanning; Conceptual space; Online ratings; Restaurants; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016423410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23306696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15195/v2.a13     Document Type: Article

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