Trust and fairness during strategic change processes in franchise systems

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-209

  Croonen, Evelien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business format franchising; Fairness; Justice; Strategic change; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955176335     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0354-z     Document Type: Article

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