11Concluding Summary
11.1 Concluding Summary
11.1.1 Economic Transactions and Social Exchanges
In this edited volume I have attempted to make further conceptual and theoretical developments, with collected contributions, in two subject areas of the research on international strategic alliances (ISAs), namely trust building and boundary spanning. While research of trust has a long historical root in psychology and sociology, research on boundary spanning is derived from the application of systems theory to organisational studies back in the 1960s (Katz and Kahn 1966; Thompson 1967). Thompson (1967) regards organisations as organised action systems with structurally contained boundaries at various levels of the systems or subsystems. ...
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