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.
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Credible commitments in R&D collaborations : a testing exercise with a troublesome construct
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.
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.
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1921047348 9781921047343
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eng
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150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
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970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
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