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Article: Triads in supply networks: theorizing buyer-supplier-supplier relationships.
- Article from:
- Journal of Supply Chain Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
A supply chain is recognized as a network made up of buyers and suppliers (Miyashita and Russell 1994; Choi, Dooley and Rungtusanatham 2001; Choi and Hong 2002). Naturally, researchers have been focusing on the basic relational context within the supply network--dyadic buyer-supplier relationships (Ellram and Hendrick 1995; Krause, Handfield and Scannell 1998; Narasimhan and Jayaram 1998; Saeed, Malhotra and Grover 2005) and dyadic supplier-supplier relationships (Asanuma 1985, 1994; Kamath and Liker 1994; Choi, Wu, Ellram and Koka 2002; Wu and Choi 2005). In recent years, supply chain managers have moved beyond managing dyadic relationships and have ...