Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective
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Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman To cite this article: Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman (2014) Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective, Production & Manufacturing Research, 2:1, 558-585 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2014.949361
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