Andrea Patrucco is Assistant Professor at Florida International University College of Business. He is also adjunct at MIP Graduate School of Business (Italy), Universidad de Las Americas (Ecuador) and Swiss School of Business and Management (Switzerland). His research interests are in the field of management of buyer-supplier relationships in both private and public sector. His research has been published in several academic journals such as Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, and Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Andrea serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and he sits in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications.