The impact of technological, organizational and environmental characteristics on electronic collaboration and relationship performance in international customer-supplier relationships

Information and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 854-864

  Bryan Jean, Ruey Jer ^a   Sinkovics, Rudolf R ^b,c   Kim, Daekwan ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross border exchange; E collaboration; International exchange; Relationship performance; Supplier customer relationship

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BORDER; E-COLLABORATION; INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE; RELATIONSHIP PERFORMANCE; SUPPLIER-CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS;

EID: 84907511895     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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