Managing contracts for fairness in buyer-supplier exchanges

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1508-1527

  Poppo, Laura ^a   Zhou, Kevin Zheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

complex contracts; distributive fairness; procedural fairness; recurrent contracts; transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

DISTRIBUTIVE FAIRNESS; FRAME OF REFERENCE; PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 84906778952     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2175     Document Type: Article

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