Boarding the Aircraft: Trust Development Amongst Negotiators of a Complex Merger

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-30

  Lander, Michel W ^a   Kooning, Linda ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

M A; Negotiations; Process study; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871335928     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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