Purchasing Managers' Perceived Bias in Supplier-Selected Referrals

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 81-95

  Hada, Mahima ^a   Grewal, Rajdeep ^b   Lilien, and Gary L ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral supply management; Business to business marketing; Field experiments; Human judgment and decision making; Purchasing processes; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886875119     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12007     Document Type: Article

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