Strategic purchasing and the evaluation of “problem” key supply relationships: What do key suppliers need to know?

Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 282-294

  Pressey, Andrew ^a   Tzokas, Nikolaos ^a   Winklhofer, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buyer seller relationships; Purchasing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547549205     PISSN: 08858624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/08858620710773413     Document Type: Article

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