Reducing distributor opportunism in the export market: Effects of monitoring mechanisms, norm-based information exchange, and market orientation

Journal of World Business

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-496

  Ju, Min ^a   Murray, Janet Y ^b   Kotabe, Masaaki ^c   Gao, Gerald Yong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Market orientation; Norm based information exchange; Opportunism; Output control; Process control

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052521196     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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