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Dyadic Business Relationships within a Business Network Context
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In business-to-business settings, dyadic relationships between firms are of paramount interest. Recent developments in business practice strongly suggest that to understand these business relationships, greater attention must be directed to the embedded context within which dyadic business relationships take place. The authors provide a means for understanding the connectedness of these relationships. They then conduct a substantive validity assessment to furnish some empirical support that the constructs they propose are sufficiently well delineated and to generate some suggested measures for them. They conclude with a prospectus for research on business relationships within business networks.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Anderson, J. C., Håkansson, H., & Johanson, J.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Venue
- Journal of Marketing
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1994-10
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 0022-2429 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7185
- OpenAlex
- W2077820623
- Cited by
- 2,370
- References
- 72
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- FWCI
- 34.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Marketing (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Business Strategy and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Quality and Supply Management
- Keywords
- business networks, business-to-business relationships, embeddedness, construct validity
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