Fairness and transaction costs: The contribution of organizational justice theory to an integrative model of economic organization

Organization Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 719-729

  Husted, Bryan W ^a   Folger, Robert ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactional justice; Organizational justice; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144276439     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1040.0088     Document Type: Article

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