한국 자동차 산업의 구매기업-공급기업간 관계 및 자산특유성과 공급기업의 성과에 관한 연구

In many industries, competitive advantage is rapidly shifting to the management of suppliers. Especially, in the automotive industry, suppliers' manufacturing performance influences the quality of automobiles which are assembled by motor companies. This study seeks to identify dominant types of buyer-supplier relationships and to examine suppliers' performance difference according to types of buyer-supplier relationships. The findings indicate that the supplier's production performance in the cooperative relationship is higher than that of the suppliers in the other relationships. And then this study examines the relationships between interfirm asset specificity and suppliers' performance. The findings indicate that the greater the interfirm human asset cospecialization and physical asset specialization, the higher the supplier's market and production performance.