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Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises' Collaborative Buyer–Supplier Relationships: Boundary Spanning Individual Perspectives

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  • Byung‐gak Son
  • Byoung‐chun Ha
  • Tae‐hee Lee

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Boundary‐spanning individuals (BSIs) play a critical role in supply chain management, especially in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) where interactions with buyers and suppliers can depend heavily on just a few individuals. This study, utilizing data from Korean manufacturing‐sector SMEs, explores whether cooperative social value orientations of SMEs' BSIs influence the effects of collaborative buyer‐supplier initiatives. The results suggested that the performance implication of decision‐sharing initiative increases when BSIs have a high level of cooperative social value orientation. However, it also negatively moderates the relationship between risk/benefit sharing (involving financial losses or gains) and performance suggesting possible negative side effects. However, we found that such orientation also negatively moderates the relationship between risk/benefit sharing (involving direct financial losses or gains) and relationship performance suggesting possible negative side effects.

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  • Byung‐gak Son & Byoung‐chun Ha & Tae‐hee Lee, 2019. "Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises' Collaborative Buyer–Supplier Relationships: Boundary Spanning Individual Perspectives," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(3), pages 966-988, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:57:y:2019:i:3:p:966-988
    DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12423
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