Relational contracts and organizational capabilities

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1350-1364

  Gibbons, Robert ^a   Henderson, Rebecca ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational economics; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872505230     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0715     Document Type: Article

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