Consistency judgments, embeddedness, and relationship outcomes in interorganizational networks

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 996-1011

  Sa Vinhas, Alberto ^a   Heide, Jan B ^b,c,d   Jap, Sandy D ^e  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Effectiveness performance; Information; Organizational studies; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVENESS-PERFORMANCE; EMBEDDED TIES; EMBEDDEDNESS; INFORMATION; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; INTERORGANIZATIONAL TIES; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; STRATEGY;

DESIGN; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

SALES;

EID: 84861370997     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1462     Document Type: Article

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