Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2011"

TL;DR: In this paper, five potential drivers of green supply management performance were identified in the literature review: Green supply management capabilities, the strategic level of the purchasing department, the level of environmental commitment, the degree of green supplier assessment, and the role of green collaboration with suppliers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework for the design of a multi-agent based decision support system for the management disruptions and mitigation of risks in manufacturing supply chains, which is based on the use of modern information technology (IT) decision support systems.

TL;DR: The paper reviews the literature on supply partner decision-making published between 2001 and 2011 and uses a classification framework that enables models intended for similar purposes to be compared and tracked over time to identify a number of gaps.

TL;DR: In this article, a mail survey is used to investigate the character of different factors that can influence the environmental purchasing of transportation services, and the largest factors regard the internal management, image, resources of the firm, customer demands, carriers and governmental means of control.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the concept of trust, and review the literature on trust in inter-organizational relationships, and conclude that the initial conditions of this project alliance were conducive to trust, both in terms of opportunities and incentives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt agency theory as a theoretical lens to look at the buyer-subcontractor-end customer triad and develop propositions on the design of contractual arrangements and monitoring activities.

TL;DR: A two-phase approach for supplier selection and order allocation problem under a fuzzy environment is proposed for a problem in which a single buyer orders multiple products from multiple suppliers in multiple periods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical evidence of cost effects from a purchasing centralization project using centralized framework agreements in the Finnish government and estimate the potential price savings by comparing the central framework agreement prices to market prices in two selected product categories.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of two important and potentially complementary elements (contract formality, trust and commitment) on the effectiveness of logistics outsourcing relationships and concluded that both hard and soft relationship aspects are important for effective supply chain collaboration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relative importance of different areas of influence for buyers and sellers in inter-organised relationships and identify the key power priorities that buyers seek to influence within their interorganisation relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed five propositions on how PPMS should be designed to facilitate strategic integration, using data gathered from four case studies with German companies from different industrial sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss power relations between buyers and suppliers in value nets, focusing on sources of structural power among network players and raise the question of network effects by discussing the significance of networks as a research context in studies on power.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework from human resource development (HRD) to the supply context was adapted to the purchasing and supply management (PSM) function and four case studies were conducted to understand the development of the important human aspect in the function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a seven-step approach to collusion detection in procurement auctions, which comprises tests of equality of means, medians and variance and tests of skewness, autocorrelation and normality of the ratios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize that the relational factors trust and commitment influence the implementation of OBA and IOCM, and the results of a structural equation model used to evaluate data from 147 automotive suppliers partly support this hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how service definitions are de-stabilised during the sourcing process and identified five categories of influencing factors (i.e., sourcing capability, supplier expertise reliance, complexity, relationship continuity and adaptive interactions).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on three types of maverick buying drawn from previous literature and test whether characteristics of users and their work contexts, drawn from literature in organizational behavior, affect the reasons for engaging in MBO.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated trade-offs in make-buy decisions for the buying firm and found that the resulting capabilities of strategic outsourcing initiatives are distinct, and furthermore do not emerge cumulatively.

TL;DR: The authors investigate how the provision of TCO information affects attribute weights, and how this effect is moderated by the Comprehensiveness of quantification and the decision-maker's experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of cooperative norms on supplier performance by establishing two types of structural mechanisms of the buyer-supplier relationship, such as operational and informational linkages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an optimization model for selecting a set of proposals from among multiple offerors for services to be performed at multiple installations, which achieves the most favorable objective by balancing the confidence level in an offeror's past performance with the cost of services to the Air Force.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the measurement properties and external validity of the organizational buying effectiveness (OBE) concept and found that the OBE scale exhibits sound metric properties and a satisfactory level of external validity, thereby confirming the plausibility of theoretical triangulation.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study based on an "historical retrospective" was conducted to examine the changes made to the supply structure of a well-known organization over a 20-year period.