The influence of communication richness, self-interest, and relational trust on banks' knowledge about firms within the small-cap debt finance markets

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 436-447

  Saparito, Patrick A ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Shanthi ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Information technology; Knowledge transfer; Trust

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMMUNICATION MODE; EMBEDDEDNESS; INFORMATION RICHNESS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SMALL FIRM; SURVEY DATA; TRUST;

COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 68249140009     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2009.2013832     Document Type: Article

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