purchasing inpatient care services from private providers may not be a suitable strategy for such contexts. …Background: Improvements in the financing of healthcare services are important for developing countries like India to …

paper investigates which individual factors support packaging free purchasing and what barriers hinder consumers to purchase … unpackaged food products. Additionally, it is tested whether the perception of barriers towards purchasing unpackaged food … products mediates the influence of pro-environmental personal norms on purchasing unpackaged food products. The main barriers …

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. …

individual parts. This paper explains how additive manufacturing will influence purchasing processes and network structures of … processes of purchasing. Traditional purchasing and modern processes affected by the implementation of additive manufacturing … of benefits e.g. reduced inventory. This exploration of the impact of additive manufacturing is focused on purchasing …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance … activity remain valid for services. We also find spatial interdependence for services FDI that is generally supportive of …

in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … agreements leading to crossborder services liberalization may boost goods trade as well, they may also lead to a fall in goods …

model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to …-border imports based on previous FDI inflows. A detailed analysis by individual service sectors highlights business, communication …

This paper analyses the potential employment effects of foreign direct investment in the Swiss services industry. First … services compared with those of industrial goods. It is demonstrated that conventional research in this field systematically … services, but also the mobility of consumers and producers, as well as the motives underlying the decisions for foreign …