Buyer-Supplier Relations in Industrial Markets: When Do Buyers Risk Making Idiosyncratic Investments?

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Organization Science

• Publication date

  1999-04-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1287/ORSC.10.4.460
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