Overview: Helps to understand and successfully design interorganizational relationships.Special chapters on franchising and cooperatives explain contract design, control and incentive issues.Includes new result.The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution o
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