Intermediaries in power-laden retail supply chains: An opportunity to improve buyer-supplier relationships and collaboration

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-84

  Hingley, Martin ^a   Lindgreen, Adam ^b   Grant, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intermediary; Logistics service; Power; Relationships; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944911293     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.05.025     Document Type: Article

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