The importance of services procurement increases constantly. However, empirical studies identify deficits in realising … the tremendous opportunities of strategic procurement of services in day-to-day business – caused by the difference of … services compared to goods resulting in a higher degree of complexity and uncertainty.Using neo-institutional approaches, the …

Customer-oriented service provision as in customer solutions or services results in new requirements for the …-oriented services in comparison to other services and their impact on organisational activities. To this end, the thesis examines the …

ökonomischen wie auch nicht-ökonomischen Modelle wird die mikroökonomische Theorie der Insitutionenökonomik, hier insbesondere des … surveying the transaction cost theory.// With alteration of mass production of standardised products into assembly of highly … plants as well as distribution and after sales services. Just repeating sale will enable amortisation of financial and other …

to the pure exchange of physical goods or services are investigated. …

company decide if offshore outsourcing is the right decision and, if so, how do they do it properly?The purpose of this …The topic of outsourcing ranks at the top of business issues for a wide variety of companies (Wery, 2004; Ezrati, 2004 …, but it can be very frustrating if not done right†(Ting, 2004). The perceived benefits of outsourcing production to China …

This chapter asks why and how services that are not previously thought of as tradable have increasingly been opened up … to international competition in EU member states including even in Germany. The chapter contrasts an explanation that … argues that lobbying by producers or users of services cannot fully explain reform nor does EU membership simply constrain …

This chapter asks why and how services that are not previously thought of as tradable have increasingly been opened up … to international competition in EU member states including even in Germany. The chapter contrasts an explanation that … argues that lobbying by producers or users of services cannot fully explain reform nor does EU membership simply constrain …

to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …