Figure 3
A Venn diagram with three overlapping circles representing supplier scarcity tensions, customer attractiveness tensions, and sustainability ownership tensions. The diagram highlights the intersections between these tensions, such as supplier scarcity versus procurement sustainability goals, customer attractiveness versus procurement sustainability goals, and sustainability ownership versus procurement sustainability goals. It also includes inter-knot effects on cost-related knots and people and functional knots, detailing impacts like reduced bargain leverage, higher sustainability price premiums, increased buyer workload and role strain, and unclear ownership of sustainability efforts.Supplier market knotted tensions. Source: Authors' work