Opportunism risk in service triads - a social capital perspective

International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 242-256

  Hartmann, Evi ^a   Herb, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Opportunism risk; Service outsourcing; Service triad; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896309892     PISSN: 09600035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJPDLM-08-2012-0249     Document Type: Article

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