Market-driving strategy implementation through global supplier relationships
(2012) In Industrial Marketing Management 41(6). p.919-928- Abstract
- The global supplier network is becoming an increasingly important asset for many firms. If successfully managed, supplier relationships may support the firm's strategic orientation and become a sustainable advantage on the global market. A key question is thus how the firm can develop and maintain such relationships. The market-driving strategy has recently been advanced as a more pro-active type of market orientation that aims to reconfigure the supply chain, change the nature of competition and the values of the customers. We especially investigate how market-driving firms can develop their supplier relationships so that they actively support this strategy. We present a set of propositions that specify factors critical for the... (More)
- The global supplier network is becoming an increasingly important asset for many firms. If successfully managed, supplier relationships may support the firm's strategic orientation and become a sustainable advantage on the global market. A key question is thus how the firm can develop and maintain such relationships. The market-driving strategy has recently been advanced as a more pro-active type of market orientation that aims to reconfigure the supply chain, change the nature of competition and the values of the customers. We especially investigate how market-driving firms can develop their supplier relationships so that they actively support this strategy. We present a set of propositions that specify factors critical for the development of the market-driving firm's supplier relationships and develop a theoretical framework that specifies how these different factors interact in order to strengthen the market-driving orientation of a supplier relationship. The results are generated from an in-depth case study of IKEA's corporate supplier strategy and of supplier relationships in the Russian and Polish markets. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (Less)
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- Elg, Ulf LU ; Deligonul, Seyda Z. ; Ghauri, Pervez N. ; Danis, Wade and Tarnovskaya, Veronika LU
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- publishing date
- 2012
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Market driving, Supplier relationships, Competitive advantage, Global, strategy
- in
- Industrial Marketing Management
- volume
- 41
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 919 - 928
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- wos:000310048900004
- scopus:84866399491
- ISSN
- 0019-8501
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.11.001
- language
- English
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- yes
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- ac8d0e68-1d3e-420b-8c87-6d571ab6ddd5 (old id 3287935)
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