Organizational culture and relationship skills

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 833-854

  Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd ^a   Koen, Carla I ^b,d   Noorderhaven, Niels G ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TiasNimbas Business School   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Ernst and Young   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inter firm relationships; Organizational culture; Relationship performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745052118     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606064099     Document Type: Review

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