Does conducting a one-time household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? Results from a two-stage field experiment on the purchase of hospitalization insurance in the Philippines suggest that it does. We started with a sample frame of clients from a large rural bank in the Philippines, and randomly selected individuals to either be surveyed or not surveyed by a local university ...

In this paper we present a Multi-Agent simulation model to investigate purchasing activities in an organizational environment. Starting point is the observation that the majority of purchasing activities in organizations is usually performed without any involvement of the organization’s purchasing department. The purpose of the experiments is to investigate if and how certain factors determine ...

This paper investigates the current practice with regard to the involvement of the purchasing department(s) in NPR purchasing. First we review the literature about NPR purchasing, and especially the major benefits and challenges of involving purchasing department in NPR purchasing. Furthermore the paper explores some theoretical explanations of why certain tasks regarding NPR purchasing should ...

Purchasing and supply leaders continually search for ways to improve the quality, delivery, and cost of production inputs. Their participation in these proactive supply chain activities can be a significant driver of purchasing and supply management’s use of information technology (IT). Using a transaction cost analysis perspective, we surveyed purchasing and supply professionals at the directo...

Value–based purchasing focuses the decisions of purchasing professionals on the creation of value, rather than on the traditional objectives of cost savings and efficiency. Most of the purchasing researchers see purchasing as a strategic contributor to the added value of the organizations. But only a few contributions discuss the possible kinds of values that the purchasing department could act...

Introduction ................... ...... 1546 I. Health Insurance Purchasing ............................ 1552 A. General Background ................................. 1552 B. Purchasing Alliance Activity: The California Experience .......................................... 1554 C. Purchasing Alliance Activity: Other States ........... 1556 II. Antitrust Analysis of Collaborative Purchaser Activi...

in order to assess the relationship between obesity with food habit and body image, this case control study was conducted among 85 urban primary school children male and female aged 10-12 years old, attending anuban school in nakhon pathom province, in thailand. two different questionnaires were used for data collection for caregivers and students. the standard used for definition of overweight...