Transaction cost economics, resource dependence theory, and customer-supplier relationships

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 497-529

  Fink, Robert C ^a   Edelman, Linda F ^b   Hatten, Kenneth J ^c   James, William L ^d  

^a WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECONOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSACTION COST;

EID: 33745700731     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtl008     Document Type: Article

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