The purpose of this study is to review the existing typologies of buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs) in the literature, to critically assess
their dimensions and underlying assumptions, and to propose a more complete BSR typology and future directions for BSR typology research.
The proposed BSR typology is based on alternative behavioral assumptions: bounded rationality and choice-determinism, and uses
relationalism, supplier dependence and buyer dependence as the typology-defining variables. This BSR typology captures four prominent BSR types
in the extant literature (i.e. market/discrete relationship, captive-buyer/supplier-dominant relationship, captive-supplier/buyer-dominant relationship
and strategic/bilateral partnership) and four new BSR types developed in this study (i.e. supplier-led collaboration, buyer-led collaboration,
competitive/win–lose partnership, and free will/voluntary collaboration).