Rulebooks in Relational Contracts
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Keywords
Relational contracts; standardization; rules; employee initiative;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2019-11-25 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2019-11-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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