Organizing around transaction costs: What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Academy of Management Perspectives

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-79

  Crook, T Russell ^a   Combs, James G ^b   Ketchen Jr , David J ^c   Aguinis, Herman ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84888631800     PISSN: 15589080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amp.2012.0008     Document Type: Article

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