Abstract At present, more and more companies realize the interdependence between companies and suppliers as well as distributors, and develop explicit linkages to improve the performance. This paper discusses the key characteristics of supply chain linkages from the view of network organization, and points out that the supply chain linkages are those between the focal company and key members, it has the characteristics of multi-tier strong linkages, multi-dimension interactive linkages, and multi-stage dynamic linkages. At last, it gives the concept of supply chain compound linkages.
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Received: 06 March 2007
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