Developing effective customer-supplier relationships: More than one way to skin a cat

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 377-388

  New, Steve ^a   Burnes, Bernard ^b  

^a HERTFORD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customers; Supplier relations; Supply chain management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100071     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656719810196342     Document Type: Article

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