Manufacturers' servitization development is a prevalent trend in the current business world.
Companies then aim to increase customer closeness and complement product offerings with …

Multichannel sales systems in business-to-business markets vary substantially in their
designs and thereby either attenuate or aggravate agency conflicts between manufacturers …

Throughout the project life cycle, project-based firms (PBFs) rely on various agents, such as
subcontractors and consultants, to carry out activities on their behalf. Although a …

Purpose Supplier–supplier coopetition is vital to buyer innovation in reality. However, it has
not received enough attention in prior research. Integrating the ability-motivation-opportunity …

Purpose Within the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chain, one of the problems
facing the distribution channel strategy is the presence of the gray market. The article shows …

Contracts are critical for managing projects. However, studies increasingly found that
contracts, albeit well written, might not be thoroughly implemented. This study aims to …

Increasingly, firms are forming alliances to engage in cooperative innovation activities with
their competitors. Participating firms in an R&D consortium can not only obtain the general …

Firms using e-commerce as platforms need to develop effective mechanisms to govern
seller opportunism. This paper attempts to explore the effect of seller community …

Since its appearance in the 1990s, horizontal collaboration (HC) practices have revealed
themselves as catalyzers for optimizing the distribution of goods in freight transport logistics …

Prior work on solutions has often neglected double agency relationships. However,
exchanges in solution business enable suppliers and customers to be in the agent and the …