Supply network strategies /

Gadde, Lars-Erik, 1945-

Supply network strategies / Lars-Erik Gadde, Hêakan Hêakansson, Gèoran Persson. - 2nd ed. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2010. - vii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Purchasing faces new challenges -- The supplier base -- Physical flows in supply networks -- Purchasing and the combining of resources -- Purchasing and the configuring of activities -- Purchasing and the positioning of actors -- Relating : developing relationships with suppliers -- Bounding : setting the border around the buying firm -- Organising : designing internal-external couplings -- Strategising : applying the supply network perspective.

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