Buyer-supplier and supplier-supplier alliances: Do they reinforce or undermine one another?

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 561-584

  Lazzarini, Sergio G ^a   Claro, Danny P ^b   Mesquita, Luiz F ^b  

^a Ibmec   (Brazil)

^b Ibmec São Paulo ^*

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EID: 42249114206     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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