The benefits of collaborative purchasing are many, yet in the healthcare sector, in particular at hospitals, it is still uncommon. In this paper we identify major impediments for collaborative purchasing, resulting in a first component of our proposed collaborative e-purchasing model for hospitals; as a second component it contains a collaborative purchasing typology. After analysis of a first ...

Due to the highly infectious virus known as COVID-19 impacting lives of populace, more than any other event in recent memory, there is a pandemic world. In order determine food purchasing behavior and eating habits, preservation techniques source knowledge about COVID-19, 992 consumers living ?stanbul, most populous city Turkey, were surveyed. The questionnaire was disseminated participants via...

purchase and consumption are an inseparable part of man’s social actions and play a vital role in allocating resources for the production of various products, their distribution pattern as well as economic, political and social development. if this issue is to be seen from the perspective of consumer behavior, consumption patterns and purchasing are considered a cultural phenomenon to be explai...

Background Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health system reform around the world, especially Europe in the last decade. Iran health system and insurance, although sometimes considered the issue of strategic purchasing goals, has not been made possible to achieve or even to ...

The cross-level or ecological inference problem has fascinated scholars for nearly a century (Ogburn and Goltra 1919, Allport 1924, Gehlke and Biehl 1934). The problem occurs when one is interested in the behavior of individuals, but has data only at an aggregated level (e.g., precincts, hospital wards, counties). This data limitation creates a situation where the behavior of individuals must b...

that may influence search behavior for a Christmas gift. A survey was recognition of all gift-giving occasions featuring more than conducted soon after the Christmas season to explore the effects of the one giver and receiver; (2) more media attention than other identified moderators on the extent of search as pertaining to a clothing annual gift occasions; (3) more marketing effort than other ...

10 Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 12 N°3 2011 www.supplychain-forum.com Seung-Kuk Paik, Ph.D. College of Business and Economics California State University, Northridge, USA [email protected] This article presents the findings of a survey study of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to their supply management. The main purpose of this article is to underst...

In this project, the research team developed a new research methodology that allows the objective measurement of the cognitive and psychophysical reactions of individual consumers to structural changes in realistic store settings. The research methodology combines a new tool for immersive virtual reality display, built recently in the Purdue Envision Center, with a set of objective and subjecti...

The concept of cooperative purchasing is as old as ancient Egypt and Babylon. Even in those days groups of independent organizations cooperated in one or more steps of the procurement process by pooling their purchasing volumes, information and/or resources to improve their performances. The main objective of this paper is to identify and classify the current forms of cooperative purchasing acc...