Control mechanisms across a buyer-supplier relationship quality matrix

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Liu, Yi ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Leinan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationship; Cluster analysis; Control mechanism; RQ

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349802572     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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