Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2009"

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis of the manufacturing offshoring and backshoring activities of 1663 German manufacturing companies shows that production off-shoring has currently lost momentum.

TL;DR: A comprehensive and critical review and synthesis of the current state of empirical research into supplier involvement in new product development (NPD) is provided in this paper, where the authors identify a set of factors affecting the success of supplier involvement projects and conclude with a discussion of two emerging themes: supplier relationship development and adaptation; and supply network involvement in product innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have shown that a dyad is not the smallest unit of a network, but a triad, made up of three nodes and the links that connect them.

TL;DR: This paper develops a model that helps overcome the information-processing difficulties inherent in screening a large number of potential suppliers in the early stages of the selection process, based on radial basis function artificial neural network (RBF-ANN).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take as its starting point the fact that complex projects, interpreted as multiple dependent interactions between many stakeholders over time, challenge traditional procurement practices based on the serial purchase of discrete components.

TL;DR: In this paper, a supplier satisfaction is defined as a supplier's feeling of fairness with regard to buyer's incentives and supplier's contributions within an industrial buyer-seller relationship, and its determinants are measured using a survey.

TL;DR: In this article, a pilot study was conducted using face-to-face interviews with key account managers and managing directors in 14 SMEs supplying UK supermarket buyers, identifying 49 elements in buyers' purchase offerings, behaviours and characteristics that suppliers regard as important.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate SME purchasing practices in terms of the degree to which purchasing is regarded as a "strategic" activity by SMEs, the use of supplier evaluation systems, and the supplier capabilities emphasised by SME buyers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there is an optimal degree of outsourcing where firms outsource some activities yet integrate others, and that deviations lower performance in a negatively curvilinear fashion.

TL;DR: In this article, a document analysis of various UK Central Government departments' commissioning frameworks was used to establish the key themes and compare commissioning, procurement and purchasing, arguing that commissioning is different from procurement, but that procurement offers major opportunities for Procurement practitioners to make a strategic contribution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an instrument for the measurement of the internal service quality of purchasing departments based on SERVQUAL and the general gap model of service quality, a specific gap model regarding purchasing's internal services quality was developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of vertical integration derived from transaction cost economics and the resource-based view is tested empirically with data from the mechanical maintenance services market in the hydroelectricity industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the expected positive economic impact of risk-efficiency-based supplier selection (REBaSS) on the average total cost of supply in the EPC industry, where critical supplies are extremely frequent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated suppliers' perceptions of value and compared business-to-business and businessto-government (B2G) relationships and found that suppliers perceive greater value benefits from their business customers than their government customers.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study was designed to determine factors of performance improvement when outsourcing manufacturing, and the results show part characteristics and supplier operating capabilities are more important than supplier relationship strategies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether all suppliers dislike ERAs and explore the relationships between supplier characteristics and supplier opinions of ERAs, finding that a small group of suppliers are actually positive about ERAs.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for evaluating the supplier's performance in a standardised public service is presented with a theoretical application to the water service, which aims at supporting the managers in their efforts to improve the service provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt an inter-industry analysis approach to compare the supply chain evolution of the railway and aircraft manufacturing industries, highlighting the fact that these industries are going through a period of enormous change involving the production system as a whole.

TL;DR: It is convincingly argued that owing to its focus on dyads, research in the supply chain management area fails to capture the complex dynamics of supply networks, and substituting triads for dyads may not be a viable alternative.

TL;DR: This rejoinder to Dubois will present the practical and theoretical significance of triads, and make reference to supply networks as a “complex adaptive system” to frame triads in the larger supply network.

TL;DR: Consequences of manufacturing outsourcing and product/process newness for RandD-manufacturing coordination are explored and a contingency framework is adopted.

TL;DR: Trent as mentioned in this paper provides an integrated, holistic view and the "how to" needed to address today's relentless and severe pressure to gain or improve a competitive advantage by applying Lean tools and techniques across the entire supply chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the factors contributing to an integration project concerning global supply management, and the relationships between the defined factors and supply management integration are analyzed by means of linear regression analysis using data from 100 Finnish firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on supply leadership changes in which an incumbent CPO is replaced and/or the CPO reporting line is changed, using a case-based methodology in 30 large North American and European organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the quantity of cost information disclosed and the offering of a joint specific investment (yes vs. no) influence the willingness of a buyer and supplier to engage in open book cost data exchange.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the opportunities for capabilities exchange within a specific business-to-business context: the relationship between a client and an information technology (IT) supplier.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the likely efficacy of government agencies using their contracting relationships with private firms to affect training outcomes in the construction industry and found that in the absence of strong industry commitment to policy objectives, the contracting approach is likely to result in high levels of avoidance activity and generate very few benefits.