Global purchasing strategy: Conceptualization and measurement

Quintens, Lieven; Pauwels, Pieter; Matthyssens, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2006.05.009

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“…Effective and standardized purchasing management can have a significantly positive effect on business performance (Emiliani, Stec & Grasso, 2005;SanchezRodrigues, Hemsworth & Clavel, 2006;Quintens, Pauwels & Matthyssens, 2006).…”

Section: Green Procurement Strategiesmentioning

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Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Luthra

Garg

Haleem

2013

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: The study aims to identify and rank the major strategies that help achieve successful implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in Indian manufacturing industry.Design/methodology/approach: Strategies to implement GSCM have been identified thorough extensive literature review and then experts' opinion is sought for categorizing them into four representative dimensions which are then ranked using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Findings:The study categorizes the GSCM implementation strategies into four dimensionsNon members of supply chain, downward stream supply chain Members, Organizational members of supply chain and upward stream supply chain members. These dimensions are found to play an important role in greening the supply chains enabling the practicing firms achieve enhanced operational performances. opinion of the experts drawn from academia and industry. As is natural, opinions of experts may not always be free from bias or prejudices. Moreover, the study relied more on the GSCM practices literature in developed nations as only limited literature related to the undertaken work in the Indian context was available. Research limitations/implicationsPractical implications: This paper may play important role in understanding various strategies and ranking them in order of importance. This facilitates firms prioritize different actions for achieving high GSCM performances in Indian manufacturing industry. Strategic implementation of green supply chain management will help Indian manufacturing enterprises enjoy cost and efficiency benefits.Originality/value: GSCM is a relatively new topic for majority of Indian manufacturing industries.This work is likely to help GSCM practitioners select suitable strategies in consonance with the government regulations and customers' requirements.

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Section: Green Procurement Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Luthra

Garg

Haleem

2013

JIEM

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“…The position of the organizational unit(s) in the overall hierarchy of the organization is irrelevant in this context, wherefore highly centralized units may also be found on low hierarchical levels. The second definition refers to the position of decision-making authority within the hierarchy of the organization, wherefore only those organizations are considered to be centralized which concentrate authority on high hierarchical levels (Hickson, Pugh, and Pheysey 1969;Jennergren 1981;Robbins 1990: 104-113;Gianakis and Wang 2000;Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens 2006b). The degree of…”

Section: Organization Of Purchasing In Public Institutionsmentioning

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“…Further, as was already noted by Stanley (1993), adaptiveness has often been neglected in research on the performance impact of PO, which needs to be rectified in the future. Second, authors could concentrate on studying the contingency relationships between supply strategies and strategic supply management, on the one hand, and different POs and financial performance of the firm, on the other (e.g., David, Hwang, Pei, and Reneau 2002;Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens 2006b;Tirimanne and Ariyawardana 2008). Third, a focus on the impact of contextual variables on PP would shift the debate from 'good performance vs. poor performance' to one of 'performance under certain conditions.'…”

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Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review

Glock

Hochrein

2011

Bus Res

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This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009. The review provides a structured overview of prior research topics and findings and identifies gaps in the existing literature that may be addressed in future research. The intention of the review is to a) synthesize prior research, b) provide researchers with a structural framework on which future research on the organization of purchasing may be oriented, and c) suggest promising areas for future research.

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“…The items used to operationalize the constructs are all taken from the literature (sometimes with slight adaptations) -we referred to the following operationalizations in designing our measurement models: Centralization is taken from Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a), standardization is a selection of tools presented by Karjalainen and Salmi (2013). Specialization is a collection of the most important skills for purchasing professionals (collected by Giunipero & Pearcy, 2000;Petersen, Frayer, & Scannell, 2000;Trent & Monczka, 2003).…”

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The influence of organizational structure on international purchasing success

Tressin¹,

Richter

Midgley³

2015

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Partial Least Squares Path Modeling: The Conference for PLS Users

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International purchasing is one of the most important strategic topics for managers and attracts more and more interest among researchers. Yet, research often lacks strong theoretical and systematic insights on the intricacies of purchasing success and does not make enough use of advanced empirical methods. We apply a structural equation modeling technique to better research into the intricacies of higher or lower purchasing performance owing to different organizational design choices. We build our model on the resource-based view and on transaction cost economics and make use of survey data of purchasers engaging in international sourcing activities. We find four important drivers of purchasing performance, namely specialization, configuration, standardization and centralization. The importance of these drivers seems to be contingent on the sourcing environments, namely on the characteristics attributed to high cost and low cost countries.

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Global purchasing strategy: Conceptualization and measurement

Cited by 88 publications

References 69 publications

Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review

The influence of organizational structure on international purchasing success

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