The role of incentives and communication in strategic alliances: An experimental investigation

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 413-437

  Agarwal, Rajshree ^a   Croson, Rachel ^b   Mahoney, Joseph T ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Economic incentives; Experiments; Game theory; Social dilemma; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; ECONOMIC INCENTIVES; SOCIAL DILEMMAS; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE; STRATEGIC ALLIANCES;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; GAME THEORY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77952072011     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.818     Document Type: Article

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