This paper examines how electronic procurement influences the organization of economic transactions. It seeks evidence … transparent markets. Testing the relationship between the effect of electronic procurement on procurement cost and sourcing … strategy, I provide new evidence that electronic procurement leads to more market transactions. This leads to the conclusion …

procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing …, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …