Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on authors; Preface: power and the Janus-faced corporation; Power in supply chains and markets; Power, rents and critical assets; The key attributes of buyer and supplier power; Towards an analytical typology of supply chain power regimes; Power regimes in supply and value chains; Site-specific convenience, branding and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the forecourt retailing supply chain; Regulation, site specificity and scale: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial sugar supply chain
Summary
This book endeavours to take resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-262) and index
