... Purchasing Sourcing Supplier relations New product development New product design (NPD) is crucial for companies seeking to extend competitive advantage, to compete on innovation, or to extend the life of their firm (Gonzalez-Zapatero et al., 2016). The failure to bring a new product...

... of how organizations identify and perceive SQR and associate various supplier quality management practices (SQMPs) with SQR sources. The second phase consisted of structured interviews at three companies in the food machinery industry in order to refine these concepts and examine causal relationships...

... Decision making Corporate strategy Sourcing Supplier relations Alliances have long been an important aspect of strengthening supply chain integration and providing sustainable competitive advantage. As supply chains embrace the importance of closer alliances, practitioners and academics face...

...Seong‐Jong Joo; Hokey Min; Ik‐Whan G. Kwon; Heboong Kwon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illuminate light on the assessment of operating efficiency of specialty coffee retailers from the perspective of socially responsible global sourcing. This paper evaluates the impact of socially...

...Kusumal Ruamsook; Dawn M. Russell; Evelyn A. Thomchick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the issues pertinent to sourcing internationally from low‐cost countries (LCCs) and to understand which issues are associated most strongly with a firm's logistics performance. Design...

...Martin Christopher; Helen Peck; Denis Towill Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the increasingly important question of supply chain design for global operations. With the rise of off‐shore sourcing and the simultaneous need for improved responsiveness to customer demand, the choice...

...Robert H. Lowson This paper reports on an empirical study to construct an objective and quantifiable method to assess the cost of sourcing from low wage, foreign suppliers. The work details development of a Total Acquisition Cost Model (TACM) that can be used to quantify the supply system costs...

...Tim Baines; Gwyn Kay Product‐sourcing practices can impact the competitiveness of an organization's products and services. Many sourcing practices exist and the challenge is to find the right practice, for the right product, at the right time. This paper describes a survey of 3,500 of UK companies...

...Michael T. Sweeney Little previous research has been carried out on the issues to be considered when choosing between manufacturing at home, offshore or sourcing from an offshore third party supplier. As a consequence, few concepts or frameworks have been developed to help determine how...