This book provides a comprehensive overview of each of the sourcing business model. Readers will master the art and science of strategic sourcing by being able to chart a unique path that fits their capacity to apply more the full continuum of strategic sourcing concepts and tools.

"An essential factor for analyzing effective buyer/seller relationships is recognizing the changing role of power in business. The 21st century has brought a new meaning to what it means to be powerful. In a simpler time, power basically equated with wealth and/or unquestioned authority. Power...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a dual pathway model whereby addressing the question, “What are the effects of supply chain orientation and organizational identification on internal integration and supplier integration?”. Design/methodology/approach: A survey...

Part 1.-Chapter 1: The new economy: Welcome to the contracting paradox -- Chapter 2: Viewing contracting through a different a different lens -- Part 2: The science of contracting -- Chapter 3: Business want contracts: business people do not -- Chapter 4: The social science of contracting --...