Executive preferences for governance modes and exchange partners: An information economics perspective

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1104-1122

  Reuer, Jeffrey J ^a   Tong, Tony W ^b   Tyler, Beverly B ^c   Ariño, Africa ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

acquisitions; experiments; information economics; international joint ventures; organizational economics

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS INFORMATIONS; ADVERSE SELECTION; EXCHANGE HAZARDS; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMICS; PARTNER SELECTION;

EXPERIMENTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84880326938     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2064     Document Type: Review

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