... Publishing Limited 2012 Automotive industry Supply chain management Suppliers Channel relationships Logistics supplier integration Modular consortium Condominium Supplier park In past decades growing externalising tendencies in the automotive industry led to divestment...

.... Buyers Supplier relations Channel relationships Buyer‐supplier relationships Social contract Supplier networks Information sharing Unethical behavior According to a 2006 Business for Social Responsibility brief, “Corruption and bribery” (www.bsr.org/research/issue‐briefs.cfm...

..., collaboration can be lower than if the goal was one of knowledge transfer. The interface, or level of collaboration, should therefore reflect the resources accessed or acquired. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Resource management Supply chain management Channel relationships United...

... into a conceptual model of drivers of close supply chain collaboration. Sander de Leeuw can be contacted at: sleeuw@feweb.vu.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Partnership Supply chain management Channel relationships Over the last decades, co‐operation between entities in a supply...

... of their products, and their delivery time and cost control will improve. Thus, the following hypothesis is suggested: H2b. Supplier training is positively related to a supplier firm's operational performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Channel relationships Supplier...

.... David A. Johnston can be contacted at: johnston@rogers.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Buyer‐seller relationships Cooperative marketing Channel relationships The capability to form successful highly co‐operative buyer‐supplier relationships has been classified as a core...

... ; Hartley, 2000), there is little research addressing the factors affecting collaborative problem solving in the mass‐production stage. Joongsan Oh can be contacted at: ojs@knu.ac.kr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Automotive industry Channel relationships Supplier relations...

... increase supply flexibility? In other words: what are the sources of supply flexibility? Supply chain management Channel relationships Sourcing Spain Nowadays, many companies are facing a highly volatile and uncertain environment: short product life cycles, frequent and unpredictable...

... support for the conceptual model. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Quality Quality management Design management Channel relationships Corporate culture Empirical study The management of both quality and buyer‐supplier relationships are issues that have attracted the attention of both...

... relations, allows innovative choices regarding products and processes of production to be made efficiently and it is clear that this has considerable impact both on the ability of the buyer to innovate[ 25 ] and on reducing time to market[ 26 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Channel relationships...