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..., 1996). Small to medium‐sized enterprises Supply chain management Supplier relations Learning organizations The SME sector has become a popular feature of many areas of business and management research. Specifically, the interest for the author is examining how the smaller organisation...

... beneficial relationships with much larger “customer” firms. The paper concludes by drawing out wider policy implications and indicating how this contextualised approach might be used in other contexts. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Growth Supplier relations Retailers...