Over- and Under-Embeddedness: Failures in developing mixed embeddedness among Israeli Arab entrepreneurs

Embedded Enterprise and Social Capital: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 225-248

  Sofer, Michael ^a   Schnell, Izhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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