Relationship flexibility in a 3PL context : impacts of network embeddedness, guanxi, and explicit contract
Haozhe Chen (Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA), James E. Zemanek Jr. and Enping (Shirley) Mai (Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, College of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA), Yu Tian (School of Business, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China)
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October-December 2015
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| Authors: | Chen, Haozhe ; Zemanek, James E. <Jr.> ; Mai, Enping ; Tian, Yu |
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Journal of marketing channels : ... distribution systems, strategy, and management. - Binghamton, NY : Haworth Press, ISSN 1046-669X, ZDB-ID 1121777-7. - Vol. 22.2015, 4, p. 253-264
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| Subject: | 3PL providers | China | explicit contract | guanxi | logistics outsourcing | network embeddedness | relationship flexibility | Soziales Netzwerk | Social network | Unternehmensnetzwerk | Business network | Logistikunternehmen | Logistics provider | Outsourcing | Lieferantenmanagement | Supplier relationship management | Lieferkette | Supply chain | Flexibilität | Flexibility | Logistik | Logistics | Vertragstheorie | Contract theory | Vertrag | Contract |