This chapter addresses the relationship between a supplier and the manufacturers that it serves, from the perspective of transaction cost economics theory (TCE). TCE deals with relationships between organizations, such as customers, manufacturers and suppliers. It states that investment in transaction-specific assets opens the door for opportunistic behavior by an organization’s partners. Inter...

We study the supplier relationship choice for a buyer that invests in transferable capacity operated by a supplier. With a long-term relationship, the buyer commits to source from a supplier over a long period of time. With a short-term relationship, the buyer leaves open the option of switching to a new supplier in the future. The buyer has incomplete information about a supplier’s efficiency,...

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We propose an effective supplier selection method to maintain a continuous supply-relationship with suppliers. Costs have been sharply increasing and profit decreasing as the global competition among companies has increased and customer demands have diversified in the current business environment. Many other functions are now outsourced globally to strengthen competition. As a result, one of th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance outcomes of strategic sourcing, specifically examining how strategic sourcing affects buyer‐supplier relationship, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance from the buying firm's perspective in the context of the US textile and apparel industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study provides an empirical investigation of ...

This article describes the different partnership strategies in the purchasing The paper compares the different customer-supplier relationships from the point of view of purchasing and deals with virtual companies in particular. Also, the contribution traces the architecture of the virtual organisations and analyses their advantages and disadvantages. The world of practice reveals that through t...

This paper presents a holistic vision of the risk-based methodologies for Software Risk Management (SRM) developed at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). SRM methodologies address the entire life cycle of software acquisition, development, and maintenance. This paper is driven by the premise that the ultimate efficacy of the developed methodologies and tools for software engineering is to...

Focusing on supplier selection, this article addresses two questions: (1) What are the antecedents that lead to the adoption of various types of selection strategies? (2) What impact do these strategies have on supplier performance? We build a research model showing how both the uncertainty-based and resource-based views drive market-focused and relationship-focused supply selection strategies....

undoubtedly, more attention is being made in the word service and industries that can be learnt from manufacturing for improving its production out puts and their associated quality and cost. these include such lean production, jit, tqm, and the relationship between buyer, supplier and finally the customer satisfaction. the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between three...

nowadays, suppliers in order to maintain and improve their positions against othernational and international suppliers take advantage of their brand equity, but the problem is that industrial suppliers do not know what factors are influencing for development and promotion industrial brand equity and also do not know how to enhance brand equity, to improve brand performance in industrial markets...