In the last few years, there has been an increasing growth in the number of collaborative partnerships between suppliers and manufacturers as a means to meet more complex customer needs and remain competitive. Selecting suppliers for a collaborative new product development (CNPD) process is a multicriteria decision making problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of t...

It is not possible for any organization and/or nation to move alone in the global village and especially with rapid changes in technology and globalization of markets; it has become very difficult for organizations to “go it alone”. World-class companies, therefore, seek to enhance competitive performance by effectively linking them with the external operations of supply chain members. Future c...

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A longitudinal study of the international behaviour of Swedish suppliers is presented. Three different types of supplier are identified: simple suppliers, advanced suppliers, and own product suppliers. Factors influencing the internationalisation of these suppliers are discussed. It is concluded that the firms’ offer and the customers’ buying strategies influence the firms’ international behavi...

We develop an integrated, multi-period model of the optimal number of suppliers that combines considerations from search and coordination theory, transaction cost economics, and incomplete contracts theory. We assess our theoretical predictions using a new dataset on the global IT sourcing decisions of 1355 firms in 12 countries collected using a survey that we specifically designed to test our...