...Beatriz Minguela-Rata; Jose Fernández-Menéndez; Marta Fossas-Olalla Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of technological cooperation with suppliers (TCS) and the firm size on propensity to develop product innovations and on propensity to radical innovations. Design...

...Jin Su 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...

...Vaggelis Saprikis; Maro Vlachopoulou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of various factors on suppliers' level of use of business‐to‐business (B2B) e‐marketplaces by examining three basic variable domains; suppliers' internal environment, their external environment...

...Archie Lockamy, III; Kevin McCormack Purpose To counteract the effects of global competition, many organizations have extended their enterprises by forming supply chain networks. However, as organizations increase their dependence on these networks, they become more vulnerable to their suppliers...

...Pekka Kess; Kris M.Y. Law; Rapee Kanchana; Kongkiti Phusavat Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify critical factors for effective business value chains in the electrical and electronic industries. This knowledge can benefit private firms as well as their supplier management and customer...

...Kannan Govindan; Devika Kannan; A. Noorul Haq Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to identify and rank the criteria used for the supplier development using interpretative structural modeling (ISM). Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a framework to analyze...

...Il Ryu; SoonHu So; Chulmo Koo Purpose Supply chain management emphasizes collaborative relationships between buyers and suppliers within a supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of buyer‐supplier partnership and to explore its impact on the supply chain performance...

...Liang‐Chuan Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze supplier selection from an economic perspective. The conventional view of cost benefit analysis is that the cost dimension is static, and companies are urged to pursue the lowest bid price when choosing suppliers. However...

...Andrew Lyons; Adrian Coronado; Zenon Michaelides Purpose To investigate the opportunities provided by proximate supply to support build‐to‐order (BTO) capability and to provide empirical analysis to identify the extent to which supplier parks as a means of facilitating proximate supply can improve...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Textile industry Suppliers Quick response manufacturing Economics Textile manufacturing processes Modern markets ask for manufacturing architectures able to respond very quickly to the variations in quantity, mix and quality of produced goods...

...Reggie Davidrajuh The main work in this paper covers a methodology, tools and implementation techniques for automation of supplier selection procedures as an e‐commerce application. The work could be divided into two main parts. First, the development of a modeling methodology which can be used...

... Systems Ltd, the specialist suppliers of weight, test, measurement and control systems. A 150‐year history,pioneering weighing technology for industry, puts it in a unique position to provide many of the solutions to these problems. Stevens marrys the basic principles of accurate weighing...