Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, a characterization of back-shoring as part of the dynamics of firms' internationalization strategies is offered, and open questions are identified and an agenda for research is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, empirical evidence was offered to some of the questions Fratocchi et al. have posed in their short conceptual paper in this issue, and further implications for global value chains and local manufacturing modes are discussed and future research directions are proposed.

TL;DR: A systematic review of research on management in the pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) is presented in this paper, with a distinct focus on three levels of industrial interaction, which influence the final value delivered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors add a U.S.-centric perspective to the "shoring" debate and show that the economic downturn, a heightened emphasis on sustainability, and increasing customer expectations for flexibility and improved cost performance drove firms to re-consider the appropriate "Shoring" decision.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the phenomenon of backshoring manufacturing relying on empirical results based on a large-scale Danish questionnaire-survey and argue for further research on antecedents, motivators and barriers of the use of globalisation strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the phenomenon of outsourcing and offshoring in the footwear industry cluster in the province of Alicante in Spain, where the main part of the Spanish footwear sector is concentrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of sustainable procurement practices amongst procurement directors/managers employed in public and private sector organizations in Malaysia, a developing country where socialization is underpinned by religious beliefs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on institutional theory and argue that the decision to implement such practices and the choice between them will be contingent upon institutional pressures (mimetic, normative and coercive), and downstream customer requirements for GSCM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the application of rational procedures and experience-based intuition affects the outcomes of supplier selection decisions taken by cross-functional sourcing teams, and they find that the use of rational procedure enhances cost performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid algorithm that prioritizes the suppliers and then allocates the demand among the suppliers is presented to maximize the total purchase value of the items taking into consideration budget constraint, demand condition, delivery lead-time and supplier capacity.

TL;DR: This study develops an encompassing research framework to investigate VES design in terms of strategic alignment, process configuration and execution, as well as corresponding benefits and costs, exploring how the combination of the previous elements determines company satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how collaboration risk perception influences communication, trust, and the governance of a collaboration and how these factors affect collaboration fluency in public service procurement and find that the higher the perceived relationship risks, the more positive effects they will have in terms of increasing trust, communication, and quality of collaboration management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how a credible third party facilitated the development of supplier partnerships by identifying qualified potential suppliers, serving as a surrogate for legitimacy for supplier firms and providing a market place for the potential partners to meet, the third party organization provided key compensating mechanisms to reduce the power and social distance and overall transaction costs associated with collaborating to effect supplier relationships between the parties.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive literature review and research agenda on the topic of International Purchasing Offices (IPO) and propose a conceptual framework to address the primary issues (i.e., IPO definition, activities, location choices, strengths, weaknesses and human resources management).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between purchasing strategies practiced by less-powerful buyers and their purchasing power and found that purchasing strategies were set in response to individual constraints from sources of purchasing power.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the TMTs of large US corporations and show that SCM is present in upper echelons, either through executives whose responsibilities explicitly include SCM or indirectly by executives, especially CEOs who had acquired SCM experience in their previous positions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose and empirically test the operational measures of social capital and their relationship with sustainable procurement activity on a sample of 135 procurement professionals in organizations, providing social housing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a theoretical framework combining concepts from transaction-cost economics and the resource-based view (RBV) to study the procurement outsourcing decisions of two hundred and eighty US-based electronics manufacturing firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the conditions to temporary sourcing diversification and situations where it is applicable are investigated and a comparison of two disaster recoveries at Aisin Seiki and Riken Corporation is made.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among outsourcing strategies and organizational control in the Chinese context and refine the theoretical and managerial implications of the current research model, and found that for efficiency-seeking outsourcing, output control and process control are appropriate in creating successful outsourcing practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate what are the possible configurations for IT purchasing, and how these configurations are characterized in terms of purchasing process (i.e., strategic purchasing, sourcing and supply), role involved, level of centralization, and span of control).

TL;DR: An investigation of the statistical power of CSEM published in seven major SCM journals since 1999 confirms that 32% of all applications have too little power, increasing the probability of Type II errors, and that another 43% ofall applications exhibit excessive power, increase the likelihood of Type I errors.

TL;DR: The recent completion of a major survey of 249 large North American supply organizations in 2011 permits a longitudinal perspective on supply roles and responsibilities over a 24-year period as mentioned in this paper, which provides a valuable opportunity to examine trends and changes over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore differences in professional service purchasing in different cultural contexts based on a survey of large organizations and analyze how the purchasing process for a specific type of professional services (management consulting services) is organized in two cultural contexts (i.e. Germany and Sweden).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of firms' policies with respect to procurement, sales, and interfirm personal relationship (guanxi) on industrial purchasers' inclination to adopt gray procurement (a particular type of unethical behaviors in industrial purchasing) using data from industrial purchaser in China.