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The weak nexus between small and medium factories and large factories in India's assembly industries
Uchikawa, Shuji; Sato, Takahiro - 2021
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Procurement: the transaction costs perspective in a globalising world
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2007 - This version: 19 November 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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Sourcing from a self-reporting supplier : strategic communication of social responsibility in a supply chain
Lu, Tao; Tomlin, Brian - 2020
Problem Definition: To manage supplier social responsibility (SR), some firms have adopted a self-assessment strategy whereby they ask suppliers to self-report SR capabilities. Self-reported information is difficult to verify and this leads to an important credibility question: can a buyer...
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Toward effective supplier management : international comparisons
Shapiro, Roy D. - 1985
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Strategic perils of outsourcing : sourcing strategy and product positioning
Matsushima, Noriaki; Pan, Cong - 2016
Although outsourcing input production has long been considered as an important approach to help downstream manufacturers enhance structural efficiency, we provide a theoretical explanation for why outsourcing may negatively affect downstream firms' profitability. We consider a duopoly model...
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Evolving procurement organizations : a contingency model for structural alternatives
Bals, Lydia; Laine, J.; 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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Roles of in-house production in firms' supplier management
Ono, Yukako - 2018
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Sourcing co-created products : should your suppliers collaborate?
Loginova, Oksana; Syam, Niladri B. - 2018
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Relational contracts and supplier turnover in the global economy
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2015
Headquarters and their specialized component suppliers have a vital interest in establishing long-term collaborations. When formal contracts are not enforceable, such efficiency-enhancing cooperations can be established via informal agreements, but relational contracts have been largely ignored...
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The advances of community cloud computing in the business-to-business buying process
Henn, Nicolas; Lohwasser, Todor S. - 2020
show that community cloud computing is not an established technology, we find that B2B buyers use cloudbased procurement … systems to enhance supplier integration. Interestingly, cloud-based procurement systems appear in all steps of the B2B buying … and the importance of the product. The use of cloud-based procurement systems in B2B buying adds up to the three main …
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