We investigate the emphasis that buyers place on each of five performance measurement dimensions (technology, quality, delivery, service, and cost) when they select suppliers and allocate orders among those suppliers. The results of a comparative case study of six large buyers in the electronics...

Never in history have global supply-chain relationships in high-tech electronics firms been more sophisticated, complicated, and almost always tied in some major aspect to China. This research examines how interorganizational (IO) cooperation impacts performance and what role relationship...