What gets suppliers to play and who gets the pay? On the antecedents and outcomes of collaboration in retailer-supplier dyads

International Journal of Logistics Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 226-244

  Hofer, Adriana Rossiter ^a   Hofer, Christian ^a   Waller, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationships; Collaboration; Retail; Retailing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926396077     PISSN: 09574093     EISSN: 17586550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJLM-01-2014-0012     Document Type: Article

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