Creating value through mutual commitment to business network relationships

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 467-486

  Holm, Desirée Blankenburg ^a   Eriksson, Kent ^a   Johanson, Jan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commitment; Network; Relationship; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000402203     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199905)20:5<467::AID-SMJ38>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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