Purpose – Business networks have to coordinate each of their partners' goals and expectations, as a lack of partner compatibility and goal incongruence could lead to conflict and opportunistic behavior. These potential problems highlight the relevance of partner selection as a means of...

The network management within supply chains requires a systematic cost oriented tool to measure and manage the transactions between the partners. Therefore a supply chain performance measurement was developed, that considers all cost of selection, acquisition, use, administration, maintenance...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect between intangible and tangible (i.e. financial) organizational performance as well as the effects of the crucial influencing factors “trust”, “strategic relevance” and “participation”. Design/methodology/approach –...

This cross-section study contains the testing of a cause-and-effect model which is likewise based on the visualised conception of the value added realisation. In the context of a structural equation model 27 hypotheses have been tested; preliminary 23 of them could be proven. Thereby, a...