The theory of embedded markets states that economic transactions are embedded in social relationships, and economic actors are influenced by both marketing variables and relationship properties. That is, within an exchange relationship actors derive utility from the attributes of a focal product...

The relationship among Board, CEO and Chair has attracted much attention in recent years due to the growing need for effective corporate governance. The objective of this paper is to analyze the Board-CEO-Chair relationship. After reviewing previous literature, we tried to integrate them to...

Ebner and Kamp examine the treatment of relationships in typical negotiation teaching, and conclude that critics of our field and its doctrines have a point: in several ways, our doctrines set students up for failure when dealing with "hard" bargainers, because of a tension that is not only...