Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2013"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a theoretical model on the different types of institutional pressures motivating manufacturing enterprises to pursue green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and commensurate performance outcomes.

TL;DR: A review of the existing literature on green supplier selection can be found in this paper, where 60 articles are reviewed, all published in peer-reviewed journals between 1991 and 2011, and a conceptual model is presented, aimed at integrating the different dimensions of green suppliers selection and identifying directions for future research.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework to explain supplier participation in green initiatives, by investigating customer requirements, supplier readiness, relational norms and customer investment as possible drivers, was presented, and hypotheses were tested using survey data of 54 German automotive suppliers.

TL;DR: The EU procurement directives stipulate that public contracts be awarded to the lowest bidder or to the bidder with the economically most advantageous tender; the latter requiring that a scoring ru....

TL;DR: In this paper, the antecedents of supply risk management performance were identified and the moderating effect of different risk management principles on the relation between uncertainty and supply risk performance was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was sent to 750 purchase and logistics managers to answer the general question; how far purchasing companies of logistics services take into account aspects of sustainable development, and how far they take into consideration aspects of sustainability development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of performance-based contracting (PBC) on the upstream suppliers is analyzed from an information economics perspective and a case study approach with insights from typical PBC industries such as defence or aerospace is used to validate and enhance the study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine network effects on the diffusion of environmental business practices (EBP) among suppliers and find that increased levels of structural and relational embeddedness are positively associated with diffusion of EBP.

TL;DR: In this article, an integer linear programming model is proposed to simultaneously determine the timings of procurement, lot-sizes, suppliers and carriers to be chosen so as to incur the least total cost over the planning horizon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the operational and financial implications and real effects of cost-oriented sourcing from China, based on the specific example of a European automotive OEM, and shed light on the ambivalent and often overrated savings impact of sourcing from low-wage countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a working definition and model for Low Carbon Procurement (LCP) is developed to guide future discussions on policy and practice, including problems associated with weighing trade-offs between carbon and wider environmental or sustainability objectives, use of carbon tools and methodologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed public e-procurement implementation and emphasized its main difficulties and impacts in relation to the type of public organizations, and analyzed the primary impacts and changes in the Portuguese public sector are analyzed within the new legal framework, which adopts mandatory e procurement for any open, restricted or negotiated procedure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of 212 articles published since 1962 are reviewed to provide a comprehensive overview of existing insights and the need for further research is assessed by combining those findings with relevant business trends.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study is used to describe how disparate companies from different parts of the world were able to achieve the organizational changes necessary for a favorable outcome, and important managerial issues are examined and knowledge is presented concerning the why and how aspects of collaborative NPPD in the context of a global chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dyadic aspect of buyer-supplier attraction was explored by analyzing six cases, two buyer firms and six supplier firms and conducting a total of 43 interviews.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review relevant theory and practice to describe ways in which public procurement shapes corporate social responsibility, and it builds upon theory to develop testable propositions to describe these influences.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey with 565 individuals suggests that the end user as a stakeholder should be also considered when analyzing a vendor's prestige, and demonstrate that a supplier's standing has negative as well as positive reputational effects on the buyer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and discuss approaches to low-cost or emerging country sourcing (ECS), and conclude that of the three strategic approaches the viability of two -the transactional approach and the supply base approach -can be questioned on several grounds, but that when seen as a process directed towards developing a network position in a new (emerging) market all three approaches make sense as different stages in a process moving towards achieving that goal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a meta-model that allows the choice of the most appropriate supplier selection technique in relation to a specific buying situation within an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) environment.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-echelon order allocation model in two periods in LSSC is established while considering the different status of varied functional logistics service providers (FLSPs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how firms manage outsourcing in situations of a non-developed supplier market and found that the learning curve for a supplier can be lengthy, and also that alternative outsourcing routes are available when outsourcing to a non developed supplier market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors refer to strategic sourcing dominant logic as strategic sourcing centricity (SSC) and describe it as a sourcing management's mindset based on learning, performance, planning, and relational orientations and manifest itself in the implementation of SS to meet supply management objectives and satisfy stakeholder requirements.

TL;DR: The 21st IPSERA Conference on Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM) as mentioned in this paper was held in 2012, where delegates from 23 countries presented and debated their ideas associated with the main Conference theme “Purchasing and supply management in a Changing World”.