1 CRGP Working Paper # 55 Do not cite or reproduce without permission of authors. Please send comments to henisz@wharton.upenn.edu Normative and Cognitive Institutional Supports for Relational Contracting in Infrastructure Projects WITOLD J. HENISZ Associate Professor of Management The Wharton School 3107 SH-DH, 3620 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370 Email: henisz@wharton.upenn.edu And RAYMOND E. LEVITT Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamikaze Energy and Environment Building 473 Via Ortega, Room 241 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4020 Email: ray.levitt@stanford.edu October 31, 2009 * We thank Martine Haas, Steve Kobrin, Scott Masten, Ryan Orr, Dick Scott, Oliver Williamson, Bennet Zelner and seminar participants at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota and University of Virginia for their comments on previous drafts. This manuscript was initially drafted while Henisz was the UPS Visiting Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. We thank Daniel Settel for expert Research Assistance.