At the end of the 1990s online reverse auctions were proposed as a powerful tool to improve the performance of corporate procurement. However, as many of the promises of the e-Business world failed to materialize the issue received only little attention during the last years. Hence, it is not known what kind of role reverse auctions play and what kind of auction designs are used in practice. Fo...

In order to increase the efficiency of the construction industry development and improvement of procurement procedures is vital. The purpose of this investigation is to increase the understanding of how procurement procedures affect project performance. A procurement model including eight hypotheses is first developed on the basis of a literature review and then tested through multivariate stat...

Purpose Effective procurement of infrastructure is linked to the attainment sustainable development goals set by United Nations. While capacity organisations generally thought be related organisational performance, there a lack empirical insights concerning contribution public towards objectives in procurement. Thus, it unclear which aspects contribute most infrastructure. This research sought ...

This paper studies the role of communication and reputation in market interactions using data from online procurement auctions. Not only positive reputation ratings but also engaging in communication increases a bidder’s probability of winning the auction. Messages are primarily used to reduce the asymmetric information associated with transactions. JEL Classifi cation: D44, D83, L14

This study aims to explore the effects of participant motive, system integration, and value-added services on supply chain performance, and the role of E-Procurement Value as a mediating role. We collected data via a cross-industry questionnaire, with total 127 survey instruments available. We analyzed our data using regression model. The results show that participant motive, system integration...

The procurement as business discipline and function of equipping process has started the process of transformation from an administrative competence and necessity to a strategic capability (Kyte, 2006). To be efficient its processes have to be interoperable in the processing, semantic and technological way with other functions and processes of the business system; end to end process integration...

In this paper, we study first-price sealed-bid procurement auctions for divisible items. The auctions are divided into two cases: the auctioneer either does or does not compensate for an oversupply of the quantity purchased. The bidding behaviors of bidders are modeled, and then the optimal bidding strategy for bidders is obtained. It is shown that the bidder’s bidding price exists and is incre...

While sharing the innovation between a buyer and a supplier can increase the efficiency and total profit of the supply chain, many suppliers are reluctant to do so. Sharing innovations leaves the supplier in a vulnerable position if the buyer exploits the information (e.g. by re-sharing the supplier’s innovation with competing suppliers). In this paper, we examine conditions under which a colla...

BACKGROUND Medical device procurement processes for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are a poorly understood and researched topic. To support LMIC policy formulation in this area, international public health organizations and research institutions issue a large body of predominantly grey literature including guidelines, manuals and recommendations. We propose to undertake a systematic r...

The edge of the Information Age, where information has become the cutting edge of global competition, has thrust the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the fore front of the national socio-economic development. ICT has been recognized as a strategic enabling tool to support the growth of the economy as well as enhance the quality of life of the population. The public sector in ...