Researchers Have Found That Buyer-Supplier Relationships Can Be Classified into Eight

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Essay

Researchers have found that buyer-supplier relationships can be classified into eight different categories. What category would be appropriate for a relationship where, although bonded by a close, cooperative relationship, the seller adapts to meet the customer's needs without expecting much adaptation or change on the part of the customer in exchange?

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Definitions:

Price

The amount of money required to purchase a product or service, set by the interaction of supply and demand.

Perfectly Elastic

A market situation where a small change in price leads to an infinite change in the quantity demanded or supplied.

Supply Curve

A graph depicting the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity of the good that suppliers are willing and able to sell, typically upward sloping.

Price Elasticity

A measure indicating the degree to which product demand is affected by price shifts.