Strategic Flexibility in Information Technology Alliances: The Influence of Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 439-459

  Young Ybarra, Candace ^a   Wiersema, Margarethe ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Strategic Alliances; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033420984     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.4.439     Document Type: Article

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