Sources of power and directions of dependencies in enterprise network relations
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The aim of the article is to indicate directions of dependence within the relationships between company and its clients and suppliers based on the sources of power in different relationships. Details about the specificity of functioning of the analyzed name were collected in the course of eight interviews conducted with owners of the furniture enterprise and with their suppliers. In the result of research such sources of the power as the volume of trade, the promptness, costs and the quality of supplies, obliging arising from agreements, the availability of substitutes of produced products, the access to alternative raw materials, investments and possibilities of changing and costs associated with it have been identified.
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