Today’s journal article review is an article by professor Göran Svensson from Halmstad University in Sweden. He is one of the first academic contributors to the field of supply chain risk, beginning around 1999. Vulnerability in business relationships was published in 2004, and it came to my attention because a lot of the literature on managaging an mitigating supply chain risk focuses on building relationships with suppliers. Trust and dependence are major components of a dyadic business relationship and therefore, important to discuss.

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