Several portfolio approaches for the purchasing area have been developed in the past. The main reason was to enable companies to follow differentiated sourcing strategies depending on the classification of different purchase items within a defined portfolio. This should enable companies to...

Various studies on the use of the Balanced Scorecards approach as an innovative performance measurement concept have been carried out in developed countries with relatively stable environments. Nevertheless, research on the implementation and use of Balanced Scorecards in the highly dynamic and...