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Inter-organisational learning has received increasing attention from researchers in the fields of organisational theory and industrial networks. Much of the research on such learning emphasises relationships with deliberate learning goals. However, knowledge and learning are involved in the daily practices between firms (Araujo 1998) and such learning may contribute just as much to knowledge development as more formal co-operations (Håkansson and Johanson 2001). Hence, this paper will look at learning in regular customer-supplier relationships. According to Håkansson et al. (1999) this kind of learning is as yet rather unspecified in the literature. The understanding of customer-supplier relationships in this paper is based on studies within the industrial network approach focusing on resources in particular (see fo