The impacts of specificity investments on relationship learning and competence building: The supplier's perspective

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-263

  Wu, Wann Yih ^a   Chang, Su Chao ^a   Wu, Ya Jung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competence building; Relationship learning; Specificity investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645133269     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2006.008823     Document Type: Article

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