Supplier relationship-specific investments and the role of safeguards for supplier innovation sharing

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 65-78

  Wagner, Stephan M ^a   Bode, Christoph ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Process innovation; Product innovation; Supplier innovation; Supply chain management; Survey; Transaction cost theory

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INNOVATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SURVEYING;

BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS; INNOVATIVE IDEAS; PROCESS INNOVATION; PRODUCT INNOVATION; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84891281364     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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