Choice and performance of governance mechanisms: Matching alliance governance to asset type

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1025-1044

  Hoetker, Glenn ^a   Mellewigt, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alliances; Formal governance; Relational governance; Telecommunications industry

Indexed keywords

ALLIANCES; FORMAL GOVERNANCE; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 69549135576     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.775     Document Type: Article

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