positional school

Cooperation of commercial chains with suppliers in the context of csr concept

The relationships between commercial chains and producers and suppliers, as well as CSR initiatives that make the tools strengthening these relationships are the object of authors' interest in this paper. Transformations that have taken place in trade for the last 20 years in Poland and for the last 40 years in Europe let us state that it is the sector that at present is characterised by asymmetry of the power of relationships in the channel of distribution.