A brokerage-based measure of organizational diversity and exploratory analysis of regulatory violations among Fortune 100 corporations
By: Roy C. Barnes and David J. Luke
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/connections-2021.021 | Journal eISSN: 2816-4245 | Journal ISSN: 0226-1766
Language: English
Page range: 7 - 24
Published on: Jun 15, 2021
Published by: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
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