Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage: Managing Alignment and Misalignment in Buyer and Supplier Transactions

Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage: Managing Alignment and Misalignment in Buyer and Supplier Transactions

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-246

  Cox, Andrew ^a   Lonsdale, Chris ^b   Sanderson, Joe ^c   Watson, Glyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230509191     Document Type: Book

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