Reinsurance trading in Lloyd's of London: Balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 932-970

  Smets, Michael ^a   Jarzabkowski, Paula ^b   Burke, Gary T ^c   Spee, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84939815857     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.0638     Document Type: Article

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