International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management articles from September 1998

International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management archives from September 1998

Purchasing and supply management: trends and changes throughout the 1990s.
September 22, 1998... The functional area called purchasing is experiencing dramatic change within U.S. industry. Once regarded as a reactive activity capable only of neutral or negative contribution, the procurement and sourcing process at leading firms is at the...

Executive and purchasing leadership in purchasing change initiatives.
September 22, 1998... Purchasing management is experiencing extensive change: This statement is supported by a number of observations. First, a major article in Fortune, makes the argument that purchasing is gaining new muscle due to its innovations.[1] A conference...

The effect of manufacturing technology on purchase contracts.
September 22, 1998... TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERFIRM TIES Both transaction cost economics (TCE) and contingency theory (CT) highlight the problem of interfirm dependency and vertical coordination).[1] Drawing on these two theoretical perspectives, this...

Environmental purchasing: benchmarking our German counterparts.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION One need only consider the media attention that surrounded the grounding of the Exxon Valdez and the chemical disaster at Bohpal, or the marketing efforts of firms such as the Body Shop to understand that consumers and...

The role of purchasing in the agile enterprise.
September 22, 1998... BACKGROUND Agile competitive strategies require a market-focused, total-systems, strategic orientation that results in the ability to rapidly respond to changing customer demands and market conditions. Specifically, four dimensions of...

Individual and collective team effort: a vital part of sourcing team success.
September 22, 1998... Imagine an approach to organizing work that almost every manager endorses, yet few argue has satisfied their personal performance expectations. This may not be as difficult to imagine as one may think. At a recent gathering of executive...