customer portfolio theories and their implications in reference to marketing and purchasing perspectives. Design …

Industrial purchasing is a growing discipline with a broad scope of research issues. Research contributions vary …. Literature reviews in the purchasing research field give the reader some tracks back to current theoretical frameworks, for … that make appropriate theoretical approaches to industrial purchasing research.  …

come to characterize cutting‐edge industrial procurement. E‐commerce aspects of purchasing are organized into communication …

) public purchasing was identified as one of the barriers to the completion of the Single European Market. Studies suggested … that a more liberal public purchasing regime would bring significant economic benefits with increased competition for …. These ideas led to a series of European Union procurement directives designed to prohibit preferential public purchasing …

This article reports on the influence of the enterprise type on the purchasing decision process within selected product … the influence of enterprise type on four parameters of the purchasing decision process, across two different product types … and four phases of the purchasing process. The results suggested that all but one parameter varied considerably among the …