... Laissez-faire Sustainability Procurement Developing economy The depletion of resources stemming from their excessive exploitation and intense industrialization harms the environment (Gutiérrez et al., 2022 ; Rashid et al., 2024a), prompting scholars to explore avenues...

... such as LSS to support strategic selection and procurement of logistics services. This paper could serve as a resource for both practitioners to derive useful implications and to academicians as it contributes to the LSS body of knowledge for further theory testing. An effective supplier selection process...

...Kate Vitasek Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how seven sourcing models operate along a continuum depending on the complexity of the marketplace and the strategic needs of buyers and suppliers. Studies of business procurement and sourcing practices reveal that collaborative...

...Massimo Bertolini; Gionata Carmignani Purpose In the 1990s, reverse e‐auctions were designed to be a widely used procurement tool due to the dramatic cost reduction. However, the current usage is more limited than expected, because e‐auctions do not always produce the benefits expected and firms...