Working your way in: How trust problems and social embeddedness affect the behavior of home maintenance suppliers

Rationality and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-64

  De Ruijter, Esther ^a   Weesie, Jeroen ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Household outsourcing; Supplier behavior; Trust problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847651874     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: 14617358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043463106066378     Document Type: Article

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