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Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s financial resources. In return, firms expect significant benefits from contracting with suppliers offering high value. This article describes the typical steps of supplier selection processes: identifying suppliers, soliciting i...

The supply chain is a system comprising organizations, decision makers, and technology decision policies that is responsible for transforming raw materials into finished products that are delivered to end customers. As expanded upon later in the paper, the supply chain is traditionally characterized by counter-current flows of information and material. Material flows from the raw material suppl...

Business transactions focus on the delivery of goods and services from one business partner to another. IT-based services support these transaction activities between suppliers and customers. Usually the transaction process consists of three phases-the information phase, the negotiation phase and the settlement or fulfillment phase. Within the negotiation phase one vital and challenging task is...

In public advisory services, the individual’s satisfaction depends less on extrinsic factors (e.g., monetary rewards) than on their inner needs fulfillment. Currently used IT-systems supporting citizen advisory services neglect these intrinsic needs of their users, hence insufficiently fostering their satisfaction. In this article, we aim to close this gap by assessing the design requirements n...

As a direct link between farmers and manufacturers of technologies, the characteristics activities input suppliers can be expected to play an important role in generation diffusion innovations agricultural systems. While innovation systems (AIS) literature recognises importance suppliers, there are few studies from Global South assessing nature implications their activities. The aim this paper ...

agricultural engineering and technical consulting services (agricultural advisory services), have been initiated to provide, among other facilitating affairs, job opportunities for agricultural graduates; while without entrepreneurial activities and simply relying on public sector contracts many of them will not be able to be economically sustainable and preserve their members employment. so th...

Financial trade credit theories argue that suppliers have an advantage over other lenders in financing credit-constrained firms. While the reasons for this advantage differ across theories, they are usually related either to product characteristics or to market structure. We exploit this insight to analyze trade credit volume and contract terms. Ceteris paribus, service suppliers offer as much ...

Companies in developed economies are now accustomed to use offshore IS services to develop and maintain software, and an increasing number of specialist offshore services firms exists to meet the demand. These include systems integrators whose origins are in developed economies, and ‘pure play’ offshore IS providers that originate in countries where the cost of IS labour is relatively low. Both...