Being successfully applied in business-to-consumer industries for quite some time, digital
platforms only recently have found their way into the industrial business-to-business world …

The interdisciplinary nature of buyer-supplier relationships, whose related concepts have
been presented in studies with contributions from supply chain management, industrial …

Purpose Suppliers are essential partners in innovation projects, as they own resources,
knowledge assets and capabilities that complement those of buying firms. In today's …

Despite extensive research into the role played by social capital and relational capability in
attaining interorganizational advantage, the way in which these resources matter for …

Business platform models often achieve industry disruption through the elimination of
barriers such as time and space by implementing smart and sophisticated software that …

This study focused on identifying strategic criteria involved in selecting suppliers of
restaurant products/services specific to casual dining, full service independent restaurants to …

The Chinese government's quinquennial “Internet Plus” plan encompasses big data, cloud
computing, and the Internet of Things for a broad range of industries. While the electronic …

Purpose The extant literature recognizes that trade credit is influenced by the power
imbalance between buyers and suppliers but most studies focus on either buyer power or …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting supplier selection in
food and beverage divisions in the Greek hotel industry. This research aimed to (1) examine …

The fast development of B2B digital platforms offers many suppliers opportunities to engage
their customers in new product development projects on these platforms. However …