Table III Constructs and measurement...

Table III

Constructs and measurement items

Measurement items/construct	Loadings	AVE/composite reliability	Random error
Constructs and items related to purchasing organization
Purchasing recognition
Top management is supportive of efforts to improve the purchasing department	0.74	0.68/0.76	0.45
Purchasing’s views are considered important by most top managers	0.90		0.20
Purchasing is recognized as an equal partner with other functions of the top management team	0.83		0.31
Purchasing involvement
Purchasing recommends and initiates changes in products/services based on supply market analysis	0.74	0.51/0.86	0.45
Purchasing actively participates in new product/service design	0.76		0.43
Purchasing actively participates in organization-wide process improvement	0.65		0.58
Knowledge scanning
To what extent do you seek to learn from tracking new market trends in your supply industry?	0.76	0.56/0.63	0.42
To what extent do you seek to learn from benchmarking best practices in purchasing?	0.79		0.37
To what extent do you seek to learn from trying out new technologies?	0.77		0.41
To what extent do you seek to learn from your suppliers?	0.67		0.57
Constructs and items related to the selected purchase category
Cost performance
The purchasing price	0.63	0.47/0.64	0.60
The cost of managing the purchasing process	0.74		0.47
Innovation performance
The supplier time-to-market for new or improved product/services	0.84	0.55/0.71	0.35
The level of innovation in products/services from suppliers	0.67		0.55

Measurement items/construct	Loadings	AVE/composite reliability	Random error
Constructs and items related to purchasing organization
Purchasing recognition
Top management is supportive of efforts to improve the purchasing department	0.74	0.68/0.76	0.45
Purchasing’s views are considered important by most top managers	0.90		0.20
Purchasing is recognized as an equal partner with other functions of the top management team	0.83		0.31
Purchasing involvement
Purchasing recommends and initiates changes in products/services based on supply market analysis	0.74	0.51/0.86	0.45
Purchasing actively participates in new product/service design	0.76		0.43
Purchasing actively participates in organization-wide process improvement	0.65		0.58
Knowledge scanning
To what extent do you seek to learn from tracking new market trends in your supply industry?	0.76	0.56/0.63	0.42
To what extent do you seek to learn from benchmarking best practices in purchasing?	0.79		0.37
To what extent do you seek to learn from trying out new technologies?	0.77		0.41
To what extent do you seek to learn from your suppliers?	0.67		0.57
Constructs and items related to the selected purchase category
Cost performance
The purchasing price	0.63	0.47/0.64	0.60
The cost of managing the purchasing process	0.74		0.47
Innovation performance
The supplier time-to-market for new or improved product/services	0.84	0.55/0.71	0.35
The level of innovation in products/services from suppliers	0.67		0.55

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