A review of recent changes in buyer-supplier relations

R Imrie and J Morris

Omega, 1992, vol. 20, issue 5-6, 641-652

Abstract: This paper provides a review of recent changes in buyer-supplier relations. We comment on the apparently changing nature of industrial transactions and the move towards a new model of buyer-supplier relations based on closer interfirm collaboration, quality assurance, and flexible delivery systems. In distinction to those who claim a break has been made with past industrial practices, our review of the fragmentary evidence indicates that the adoption and implementation of new buyer-supplier relations is, at best, partial. We also comment on some of the constraints which are inhibiting the development of buyer-supplier practices.

Keywords: buyers; suppliers; transactions; collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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