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Finance and Financial Management

Portland State University

2019

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Unintended Consequences: How Suppliers Compensate For Price Concessions And The Role Of Organizational Justice In Buyer-Supplier Relations, Steven Carnovale, John W. Henke, Scott Duhadway, Sengun Yeniyurt Mar 2019

Unintended Consequences: How Suppliers Compensate For Price Concessions And The Role Of Organizational Justice In Buyer-Supplier Relations, Steven Carnovale, John W. Henke, Scott Duhadway, Sengun Yeniyurt

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“You get what you pay for” is one of life's lessons that predominates in purchasing decisions individuals make in their personal lives. The results of this study suggest this lesson should also prevail among management when price‐related purchasing decisions in businesses are being made. An evaluation of over 1,700 purchasing instances across seven years of a longitudinal panel data set collected from Tier 1 production suppliers to the six major North American automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota, found that suppliers compensate for price concessions and price reduction pressure from the OEM in …