Performance in Product versus Service Supplier Relationships

Competition Policy and Antitrust Law: Implications of Developments in Supply Chain Management

“…Consolidation and concentration have interacted with other changes (e.g., technology) to shift the balance of power from manufacturers to retailers (Anselmi et al., ; Bowersox et al., ; Hughes & Ahearne, , p. 91; Schmitz et al., ). While “only a few decades ago, large and dominant manufacturers could easily impose prices and other buying conditions on typically small retailers in a fragmented retailer landscape, … retailers have gained bargaining power and have altered the retailer‐manufacturer relationship…” (Van der Maelen, Breugelmans & Cleeren, , p. 118).…”

“…Research that examines the evolution of distribution systems (Fein & Jap, 1999), distribution (Mentzer et al, 2001;Lambert , Knemeyer, & Gardner, 2004;Corsten & Kumar, 2005;Bowersox, 2007), and supplier-buyer arrangements (Anselmi, Frankel & Whipple, 2002;Hughes & Ahearne, 2010;Whipple & Frankel, 2000) documents past developments in the organization of supply chains. Research on power and dependence (Frankel, Schmitz Whipple & Frayer, 1996;Zemanek & Frankel, 2001;Anselmi et al, 2002;Lambert et al, 2004;Bowersox, 2007;Daugherty, 2011;Kim, Jung & Park, 2015) and its use in sustainability management (Pullman, Maloni & Carter, 2009;Pagell & Wu, 2009;Busse & Mollenkopf, 2017;Hajmohammad & Vachon, 2014;Touboulic, Chicksand & Walker, 2014;Xiao, Wilhelm, van der Vaart & van Donk, 2019) documents developments in the nature and role of power in managing supply chains. Together, this research offers potential to advance understanding of the anticompetitive use of RPM by documenting the impact of changes in the organization of supply chains and the impact of shifts in the relative power held by supply chain members.…”

“…Impact of Consolidation and Firm Concentration. Past research in SCM (Anselmi et al, 2002;Bowersox, Closs, Cooper & Frayer, 1993;Fein & Jap, 1999;Gibson, Defee & Randall, 2009;Kaufman, 1999;Schmitz, Frankel & Frayer, 1995) and related fields (Hawkes, 2008(Hawkes, , 2009Kumar, 2005;Swinnen & Vandeplas, 2010) documents that consolidation and other factors have transformed the supply chains for many goods, leaving them more concentrated and shifting the locus of power from upstream to downstream. This research shows that across time many supply chains have become consolidated and economically concentrated.…”

A New Method for Agricultural Market Share Assessment

“…These factors are all important in building the customer-supplier relationship, in the Internet era as well as before [20,21]. Even if social integrative relationships between manufacturer and suppliers can be built with the aid of information technology [22], B2B purchases are still centered on cost, quality, relationship management, and technological criteria [23][24][25][26]. Distributors also are trying to mitigate the inherent risks associated with the use of their product by providing know-how and experience.…”