No, it’s not what you think it is, but I could not think of a more fitting title (to attract more readers), and had I been the author of this article, that’s the title I probably would have used when submitting my article, although I’m not sure the editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management would have approved of it. More academically correctly titled, Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships by Thomas Y Choi and Zhaohui Wu is a fascinating read and a brilliant attempt at classifying buyer-supplier triads into nine distinctively different configurations.

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