Managing knowledge leakage in strategic alliances: The effects of trust and formal contracts

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 983-991

  Jiang, Xu ^a   Li, Mei ^a   Gao, Shanxing ^a   Bao, Yongchuan ^b   Jiang, Feifei ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence trust; Formal contracts; Goodwill trust; Knowledge leakage; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884594255     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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