“…Contracts, authority and cooperation have been identified as complementary mechanisms aimed at coordinating resources [Borzaga, Sacchetti and Tortia, 2016;Grandori, 1997b;cf. also Bekker, 2014;Daboub and Calton, 2002;Jackson and Thelen, n.d.;Wu, Hsia and Huo, 2015]. Scholars emphasise that the use of more than one mechanism reflects not only the existence of multiple and diverse production problems and situational contexts [AUTHORS 2019] but also multiple motivations and behavioural attitudes [Adler et al, 2009;Pittz and Adler, 2016].…”