Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic Purchasing Fails

Strategic Tech Purchasing

DREXEL’s Bielec: Purchasing cards are cheaper and easier. FINDING WAYS TO better manage your purchasing strategy can help save considerable sums not just on purchases, but on back-end support costs. For suggestions on how to cut tech procurement costs and control spending, we spoke with CIOs at two universities and a senior manager of higher ed purchasing at one of the biggest tech product supp...

Strategic purchasing , supply management , and firm performance

Purchasing has increasingly assumed a pivotal strategic role in supply-chain management. Yet, claims of the strategic role of purchasing have not been fully subjected to rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny. Extant research has remained largely anecdotal and theoretically under-developed. In this paper, we examine the links among strategic purchasing, supply management, and firm performa...

The Purchasing Power Parity Debate

Our willingness to pay a certain price for foreign money must ultimately and essentially be due to the fact that this money possesses a purchasing power as against commodities and services in that country. On the other hand, when we offer so and so much of our own money, we are actually offering a purchasing power as against commodities and services in our own country. Our valuation of a foreig...

Nonlinear Adjustment Towards Purchasing Power Parity

International Price Levels and Purchasing Power Parities

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Background data and methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. PPPs and real expenditures in 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111. Patterns of relative prices in OECD countries . . . . . . . . . . . . IV. Comparative price levels and real per capita GDP . . . . . . . . . V. Price levels, purchasing power pa...