Ethical issues in international buyer-supplier relationships: a dyadic examination

The author combines extant literature with findings from focus group interv iews and a set of surveys to identify the ethical issues involved in relati onships of US purchasing managers and their non-US suppliers. Survey data f rom matched sets (dyads) of buyers and suppliers is then used to examine th e influence of unethical behavior on the satisfaction with the relationship and on supplier performance. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights res erved.