Repeated interactions and contractual detail: Identifying the learning effect

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 186-201

  Vanneste, Bart S ^a   Puranam, Phanish ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contractual detail; Interorganizational relationships; Learning; Repeated interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953691383     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1080.0402     Document Type: Article

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