Credible commitments in R&D collaborations : a testing exercise with a troublesome construct Couchman, Paul K. and Fulop, Liz 2006, Credible commitments in R&D collaborations : a testing exercise with a troublesome construct, in ANZAM 2006 : Pragmatism, philosophy, priorities. : Proceedings of the 20th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference on Management: : 6-9 December 2006, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton., ANZAM, Lindfield, N.S.W., pp. 1-18. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Credible commitments in R&D collaborations : a testing exercise with a troublesome construct Author(s) Couchman, Paul K. Fulop, Liz Conference name Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Conference (20th : 2006 : Rockhampton, Qld) Conference location Rockhampton, Queensland Conference dates 6-9 Dec. 2006 Title of proceedings ANZAM 2006 : Pragmatism, philosophy, priorities. : Proceedings of the 20th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference on Management: : 6-9 December 2006, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton. Editor(s) Kennedy, Jessica Di Milia, Lee Publication date 2006 Conference series Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference Start page 1 End page 18 Publisher ANZAM Place of publication Lindfield, N.S.W. Keyword(s) credible commitments trust R&D projects inter-organisational collaboration Summary The findings reported here are part of a larger study on cross-sector R&D collaborations in the Australian Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Programme. The study has sought to explain project partners’ collaboration experience using a theoretical model which was empirically tested with a survey of CRC project leaders. A key hypothesis was that the higher the level of relational trust amongst the partners in a collaborative project, the more positive would be the partners’ experience of the project. The construct of “credible commitments”, which is widely used in the inter-organisational literature, was posed in the model as an antecedent of relational trust and positively related to it. No support was found for the hypothesis. The findings are discussed and future areas of research. ISBN 1921047348 9781921047343 Language eng Field of Research 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2006, ANZAM Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30034931 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 30 May 2011, 10:40:12 EST Tue, 26 Jul 2011, 14:08:35 EST Wed, 27 Jul 2011, 11:04:32 EST Tue, 22 Nov 2011, 10:29:43 EST Tue, 22 Nov 2011, 10:31:35 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 18:57:04 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 146 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 30 May 2011, 10:40:12 EST

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