This paper discusses the problems of testing the structure-profit relationship, and presents an alternative approach to measuring the market power and profitability hypothesis. The results from an empirical study on firm level indicate that firms in a monopoly situation can maintain a high...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the prior relationship length and employments of supplier specific investments on buyers' control, and compare this effect across international and domestic business-to-business relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The...