“…This study endeavors to address a number of the aforementioned research gaps and make an original contribution by conducting additional research that considers B2B procurement, supplier, and the TBL framework elements from a developing country perspective. Hence, there is a need for this study, which is justified via literature, since it investigates new sustainable B2B procurement environmental [21,22,[24][25][26], social [22,25,51,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59], and economical factors [23,50] and/or constructs [21][22][23]25,51,55,60,61,64], uses a large sample size [21,22,25,[50][51][52], and seeks to develop a new supplier preference model [27,63,[65][66][67] in an African developing country across various industries [22,25,55,[60][61][62][63]. To determine the aforementioned points, the researcher believed that instead of being prescriptive (that is, looking at the problem from a ...…”