Contractual commitments, bargaining power, and governance inseparability: Incorporating history into transaction cost theory

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-63

  Argyres, Nicholas S ^a   Liebeskind, Julia Porter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033249244     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMR.1999.1580440     Document Type: Article

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