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Many of the predictions regarding future implications of new media and information technologies appear to be made with very limited supporting rationale. Too often the excitement of a novel technology is associated with the belief that “new rules” apply. Alternatively, this paper proposes...
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discuss the implications of such forecasts for consumer purchasing behaviour and marketing planning. Design … inertia literature implicates the regret that consumers associate with purchasing a discounted item once they have missed a … depressed purchasing behaviour. The paper argues that because affective anticipations are typically erroneous, their impact on …
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Large owner‐users of real estate increasingly search for methods to streamline their operations and reduce expenses without decreasing services to building occupants. This paper describes a model successfully adopted by a variety of corporations to accomplish these objectives. Key to achieving...
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Purpose – Advances in information technology (IT) and the globalization of business are both realities and opportunities of the twenty‐first century. This article aims to examine the role of information technology in the globalization of business buying behavior. Design/methodology/approach...
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Purpose – Purchasing has emerged as a key source of competitive advantage. This paper aims to explore how different … purchasing strategies are connected to complex supply relationships and to the goal of purchasing. Design … contribution describes six types of purchasing strategies that firms exert. These strategies depend on the complexity of supply …
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industrial marketing‐purchasing situations involving rejecting versus accepting superior technological innovations ‐ innovations …
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Organizational buying is an active research domain with hundreds of studies grounded in one or several of the complementary theoretical models in the literature. In recent years, however, many scholars have focussed on the importance of the buyer‐seller relationship. For many research studies,...
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A better understanding of relational interdependency can help a buyer manage an effective level of commitment with a supplier and, consequently, increase successful exchange outcomes. The buyer which successfully manages relational commitment, encourages the supplier to make...
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purchasing business services is developed to create a matrix with importance of service and focus of service as dimensions … the propositions and validity of the taxonomy for purchasing business services.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide a conceptual foundation to enhance the body of knowledge related to supplier selection in light of global supply chain disruptions and risk. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed tool is based on a multi‐criteria optimization framework,...
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