The governance of partnerships and a strategic network: Supplier actors' experiences in the governance by the customers

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1031-1051

  Kohtamäki, Marko ^a   Vesalainen, Jukka ^b   Varamäki, Elina ^a   Vuorinen, Tero ^b  

^a SEINÄJOKI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Case studies; Customers; Experience; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747834363     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610690603     Document Type: Article

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