Relational and Structural Embeddedness in Customer Network and Supplier’s Financial Performance

• In Event: SCM: Supply Networks - Structural Characteristics and Performance

Abstract

Network researchers have argued that both relational embeddedness – characteristics of relationships – and structural embeddedness – characteristics of the relational structure – influence a firm’s behavior and performance. This study explores how a supplier’s financial performance is affected by the relational and structural characteristics of its major customer network.

Author

• Yoon Hee Kim, Georgia Southern University