The effect of interorganizational trust on make-or-cooperate decisions: Disentangling opportunism-dependent and opportunism-independent effects of trust

European Management Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-115

  Hoffmann, Werner H ^a   Neumann, Kerstin ^a   Speckbacher, Gerhard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

cooperation; governance decisions; interorganizational trust; strategic alliances; vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954429072     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/emr.2010.8     Document Type: Article

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