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Breaching relational obligations in a buyer-supplier relationship: Feelings of violation, fairness perceptions and supplier switching

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In this article, the authors evaluate the role that psychological contracts, or unspoken obligations can play in buyer-supplier relationship dissolution, and find that breach of a relational psychological contract has both a direct effect on fairness perceptions, and an indirect effect mediated by an emotional response.
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This article is published in Industrial Marketing Management.The article was published on 2018-10-01. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supplier relationship management & Psychological contract.

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The impact of supply chain relationship configurations on supplier performance: investigating buyer–supplier relations in the aerospace industry

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the performance implications when suppliers establish shared relationships with the buyer's competitors and showed that suppliers with less-shared ties with buying firms' competitors exhibit superior inventory efficiency and asset turnover.
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How COVID-19 pandemic has shaped buyer-supplier relationships in engineering companies with ethical perception considerations: A multi-methodological study

TL;DR: In this paper , a multi-methodological study consisting of an industrial survey and an interview-based thematic analysis was conducted to study how buyers and sellers leverage collaboration and resource sharing to tide over pandemic-like situations similar to the current COVID-19 pandemic while considering their ethical perceptions.
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Psychological contract breach and opportunism in the sharing economy: Examining the platform-provider relationship

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the determinants of individual service providers' relationship with a sharing economy platform using psychological contract theory and found that psychological contract breach is an important construct within platform B2B relationships which increases feelings of violation and reduces trust.
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Can Psychological Contracts Decrease Opportunistic Behaviors?

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors introduce the psychological contract into the exploration of why formal contracts cannot completely avoid opportunistic behaviors and investigate whether psychological contracts in relationships can reduce the occurrence of opportunistic behaviours.
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