Quality, reputation and the choice of organizational form

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 515-527

  Vlassopoulos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contractual incompleteness; Nonprofit status; Reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349195341     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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