Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the main effects of agent conscientiousness and reciprocity norm and the interaction effect of these two factors on contract adjustment decisions in buyer-supplier relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Two scenario-based...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to review the existing typologies of buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs) in the literature, to critically assess their dimensions and underlying assumptions, and to propose a more complete BSR typology and future directions for BSR typology research....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a gender effect exists in firm compliance decisions in relational supply chain exchanges. Design/methodology/approach – To test the authors' hypotheses, a scenario‐based experiment was conducted with undergraduate and graduate...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the main effects of agent conscientiousness and reciprocity norm and the interaction effect of these two factors on layoff decisions in firm‐employee relationships. Design/methodology/approach – A scenario‐based experiment with...