Governing cooperation hazards of outsourced municipal low contractibility transactions: An exploratory configuration approach

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-312

  Johansson, Tobias ^a   Siverbo, Sven ^b,c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TRONDHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Configurations; Inter organizational relationships; Management control; Outsourcing; Public sector; Taxonomies; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655189953     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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