Free to be trusted? Organizational constraints on trust in boundary spanners

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 422-439

  Perrone, Vincenzo ^a   Zaheer, Akbar ^b   McEvily, Bill ^c  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary Spanner; Buyer Supplier Relationships; Organizational Context; Role Autonomy; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013533325     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.4.422.17487     Document Type: Article

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