Contracts and Trust in Alliances: Discovering, Creating and Appropriating Value
Автор:Paul W. L. Vlaar Год: 2008 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 338 ISBN: 1847205178 `Paul Vlaar's book very creatively combines three rich streams of research dealing with economic exchanges; and, in doing so, provides readers with new and important insights on trust, contracts and inter-organizational relationships (IORs). This is cross-disciplinary research at its best. Focusing on the independent and interdependent roles of contracts and trust in value creation and in value capture in IORs, Vlaar relies on solid quantitative and qualitative data to support his arguments. This book is must reading for scholars, managers and policy makers who are interested in these topics.' - Peter Smith Ring, Loyola Marymount University, US `Paul Vlaar's Contracts and Trust in Alliances is one of the most creative contributions to the alliance literature in a very long time. Vlaar's discussion is informed by an unusually deep knowledge of the literature, and significantly pushes the research frontier by examining "non-standard" but crucial issues, notably how mutual...