Authors: Hervé Fenneteau; SylvieM Lacoste
For the past 10 years we have seen the purchasing department of leading and major companies restructuring their purchasing approaches and moving towards more formalised and global purchase processes. This move follows further pressure from their environment, which has become a hyper-competitive and global one. The question arises whether the Relationship Marketing paradigm which has been developing for over 20 years now, is not being turned by Key Account customers, under the influence of their purchase structures, into a «transactional/relational hybrid» relationship management paradigm. This paper is a first step of an empirical research to define new forms of a ",hybrid", relationship between key Accounts and their network of suppliers, mixing featuresfrom transactional and relational exchanges and analysed from the key Account (customer) perspective. Why and how do they use this new form of customer-supplier relationship?
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Publish Year: 2008
Conference: Uppsala, Sweden (2008)