The low-trust route to economic development: Interfirm relations in the UK engineering construction industry in the 1980s and 1990s

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 787-808

  Korczynski, Marek ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030295415     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1996.tb00172.x     Document Type: Article

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