“…However, relatively little is known about the justice approaches of LPOs in procurement for inclusive interorganizational relationships with EMSs. Procedural Justice in Procurement Management Power-based logics (Hopkinson and Blois, 2014) have limitations, and small firms in some cases may be able to rebalance power asymmetries in their relationship with a LPO by exploiting their specialist core competencies (Gulati and Sytch, 2007;Mesquita and Brush, 2008;Subramani and Venkatraman, 2003). Nonetheless, LPOs tend to be the 'rule makers' because of the pronounced power/dependence asymmetries they enjoy in such relational contexts (Ram, Woldesenbet and Jones, 2011;Woldesenbet, Ram and Jones, 2012).…”