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Evolving procurement organizations: A contingency model for structural alternatives
Bals, Lydia; Laine, Jari; Mugurusi, Godfrey - 2015
Procurement has to find further levers and advance its contribution to corporate goals continuously. This places … pressure on its organization in order to facilitate its performance. Therefore, procurement organizations constantly have to … highlight the importance of taking a contingency perspective on procurement organization, understanding the internal and …
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Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review
Glock, Christoph H.; Hochrein, Simon - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 149-191
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the … purchasing may be oriented, and c) suggest promising areas for future research. …
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Impact of strategic management, corporate social responsibility on firm performance in the post mandate period: Evidence from India
Mitra, Nayan - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 6 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...
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Balancing the Bids, Solutions for Unit Price Auctions
Renes, Sander - 2011
Many organizations use procurement tenders to buy large amounts of goods and services. Especially in the public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325995
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Cartel detection in procurement markets
Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - 2011
authority. The results not only suggest that monitoring procurement markets through screening tools has the potential of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307848
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Bidding for Incompete Contracts
Bajari, Patrick; Houghton, Stephanie; Tadelis, Steven - 2004
When procurement contracts are incomplete, they are frequently changed after the contract is awarded to the lowest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325015
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Equilibrium in Scoring Auctions
Asker, John; Cantillon, Estelle - 2004
This paper studies multi-attribute auctions in which a buyer seeks to procure a complex good and evaluate offers using a quasi-linear scoring rule. Suppliers have private information about their costs, which is summarized by a multi-dimensional type. The scoring rule reduces the multidimensional...
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Procurement Bidding in First-Price and Second-Price Sealed Bid Common Value Auctions
Lunander, Anders - 1999
Within the framework of the common value model, we examine the magnitude of the difference in expected outcome between first-price and second-price sealed bid auctions. The study is limited to two empirical specifications of bidders' signals: Weibull and normal distribution. The optimal bid...
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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World
den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2007
implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis …
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Optimal Use of Rewards as Commitment Device When Bidding is Costly
Hu, Luke - 2012
This paper considers procurement auctions with costly bidding when the auctioneer is unable to commit himself to …
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