Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of institutional pressures at the country level (i.e., coercive, regulatory, normative) on the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices is studied. And the results show that mimetic and normative pressures have a positive effect on sustainable supplier adoption and that this influence is positively moderated by the firm's level of supplier integration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the collaborative paradigm in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and showed that there are both supporting and hindering factors to collaborative SSCM.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework is developed, based on general supply chain integration literature, but adapted to a project-based context, and empirical findings from a multiple case study of four engineering projects indicate that there are strong interdependencies among the four dimensions, suggesting that it is crucial to manage them simultaneously and systemically rather than in isolation.

TL;DR: A comparison across PLS reviews from various disciplines suggests that SCM research applies the same or even higher reporting standards in performing a PLS analysis and reporting the results than other disciplines that use PLS.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated framework that explains outcome effects of new product development (NPD) projects is proposed and validated using four in depth case studies studying actual global NPD projects taken from a large multinational company.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended existing stages of strategy development in purchasing and, for the first time, completely integrated sourcing categories and sourcing levers as levels of analysis, and proposed a hierarchy of stages when general strategy is disaggregated into executable and controllable activities: (1) firm strategy, (2) purchasing strategy as a particular functional strategy; (3) category strategies for the multitude of supply markets; effectuation by a set of tactical sourcing levers and (5) strategies for each supplier within a sourcing category.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the power dynamics which lead low-power suppliers to re-balance their power relationship with strategic customers and find that the supplier performance is process-driven.

TL;DR: In this article, a UK Government online feedback facility has provided an original, extensive and rich source of material from SME suppliers, revealing a public procurement process which SMEs perceive to be frustrating and biased against them.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified definition of meaningful involvement is proposed to guide decision-making for more efficient and effective purchase of services, where meaningful involvement may require very different types of involvement, varying from primary control to a consultative role.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between multiple types of business value, strategic success factors, and multiple groups of stakeholders that affect and are affected by closed loop supply chain activities, and conclude that CLSC activities create opportunities and reduce risks for the focal company and their primary and secondary stakeholders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualized the supply chain of innovation of a company as its supply chain not related to physical goods exchanges but to RD and examined how the position of the firm within its innovation network moderates this relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the impact of supply constraints on the long-term viability of sustainability related innovations, using the case of bioenergy from organic waste, and propose a research agenda aimed at purchasing and supply scholars and centred on the need to understand better the interplay between market evolution and supply uncertainty and market shaping.

TL;DR: The findings from the analysis of six embedded cases indicate that suppliers can also achieve structurally powerful network positions by skillfully focusing their development efforts on fostering the complementarities of power sources.

TL;DR: In this article, structural equation modeling is used to examine the relationship between service quality and its determinants, and the results suggest that the sufficiency of the requirement definition and communication between the buyer and supplier are associated with B2B service quality, but that monitoring the supplier is not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore sustainable procurement practices across Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE) in India, and particularly to understand how CPSEs operationalise and disclose sustainable procurement (SP) practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the procurement of professional ICT services in which stabilization and destabilization of specifications contributed to a successful sourcing process, and they found that service definitions change during the purchasing process, induced by dissatisfaction about the current supplier, by new information from suppliers (market consultation), and by the need to clarify specifications for potential suppliers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a mixed methods research design to explore how social sustainability outcomes are impacted by early supplier integration and associated strategies for successfully implementing this integration and found that the suppliers that are being involved early are not always strategic suppliers as one would expect, but are often what are traditionally categorized as leverage suppliers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study in which a work floor professional together with a researcher tried to contribute to the implementation of supply chain partnering within the maintenance and refurbishment processes of a Dutch housing association.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the experiences of SMEs supplying traditional building skills to the publicly funded UK heritage sector and demonstrate that the heritage sector has distinct characteristics which affect the public procurement of traditional building skill.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how purchasing strategy at the purchase category level is related to the structure of the supply base for that purchase category, and find that supply base structures that are associated with higher purchasing performance are not only explained by differences in purchase category strategy, but also by the product category's impact and supply risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a systematic review of 88 articles on service classification published between 1964 and 2013, with the objective of developing a comprehensive, managerially useful service classification, and they concluded that purchasing managers that collectively use the four service segmentation attributes mentioned here may obtain a more complete overview of key managerial issues in the procurement and subsequent management of business services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the implementation of an executive order that originated in 2009 to increase government expenditures on minority business enterprises (MBEs) and found that government agencies closest to the governor will spend more on MBEs than other agency types.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of IT on outsourcing and the within firm choice of decentralization or centralization of HR services is investigated using transaction-and agency-cost approaches, and the interdependence of centralization decisions with outsourcing decisions is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of serial versus a co-opetitive supply chain design on inventory management, order fulfillment, and cost performance were compared using a multi-level simulation.