Alliances in Industrial Purchasing: The Determinants of Joint Action in Buyer-Supplier Relationships:
01 Feb 1990-Journal of Marketing Research (SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA)-Vol. 27, Iss: 1, pp 24-36
TL;DR: In industrial markets, buyers and sellers are increasingly replacing conventional "arm's length" arrangements with "alliances" involving closer ties as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this paper have developed a new approach to deal with this trend.
Abstract: Recent trends in industrial markets indicate that buyers and sellers are increasingly supplanting conventional “arm's length” arrangements with “alliances” involving closer ties. The authors develo...
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