Competition or Cooperation? Promoting Supplier Performance with Incentives Under Varying Conditions of Dependence

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 29-53

  Terpend, Regis ^a   Krause, Daniel R ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationships; Competition; Cooperation; Dependence; Hierarchical regression analysis; Power; Purchasing performance; Social exchange theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942586795     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12080     Document Type: Article

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