Institutional ties, transaction costs, and external service production

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-427

  Carr, Jered B ^a   LeRoux, Kelly ^b   Shrestha, Manoj ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative conjunction; Contracting; Institutional collective action; Intergovernmental; Multinomial logit; Municipal governments; Social network; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 57449089345     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087408323939     Document Type: Article

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