Cooperation, trust and performance - empirical results from three countries

British Journal of Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 469-483

  Fink, Matthias ^a   Kessler, Alexander ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

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EID: 77953971003     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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