on SME growth and inhibits market competitiveness. Moreover, SMEs face structural and bureaucratic barriers set in place … engaged with the supply chain in different ways depending upon a number of factors. However, each SME experienced a range of … professional networks. The findings also reveal a number of barriers that SMEs encounter and highlight the strategies that SME …

procurement strategies. The second essay investigates information technology hardware innovation. I examine R and D offshoring of …There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement … contracting strategies in a hierarchical supply network; 2. R and D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies firm …

procurement decisions in the presence of information asymmetry? The three essays in this dissertation study three specific … Contracts” designs a simple and easily implementable optimal procurement mechanism for a newsvendor-like problem, where the … for an OEM’s indivisible contract based on cost.This dissertation has the potential to help procurement managers …

werden der Einfluss dienstleistungsspezifischer Objektmerkmale auf die strategische Beschaffung erklärt und Empfehlungen zur …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 …

The impressive and sustained growth of India's automobile industry in recent years has catapulted it into the league of … might have been subdued, if the Government of India had not played a pivotal role in the industry's evolution. This apparent …

firm, particularly focusing on project management, product development and procurement decisions. In the first essay we … make such trade-off decisions under competition. In the third essay, we analyze the optimal procurement strategy of a firm … procurement cost. Further, we discuss the value of leadtime flexibility in supply risk mitigation and highlight the role of an …

application to building procurement in Perth, Western Australia. The objectives were to determine the definition of Guaranteed … over other methods of procurement that included price certainty for the client, a team approach to project delivery and …

application to building procurement in Perth, Western Australia. The objectives were to determine the definition of Guaranteed … methods of procurement that included price certainty for the client, a team approach to project delivery and faster completion …

financial interest in procurement of their projects [1]. Reasons for this are cited as: allocation of risk, guaranteed maximum …