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The impact of electronic procurement on buyer-supplier relationships
No full textIncreased globalisation and global sourcing over the past 30 years have made the Internet and
information technology (IT) along with the procurement role within companies more and
more important. Electronic procurement (e-procurement) and various e-procurement
applications have therefore become important both for procurement and communication
between buyers and suppliers. While the use of the Internet and IT in the interaction between
buyers and suppliers have increased, face-to-face communication between buyers and
suppliers has decreased. It is therefore assumed that buyer-supplier relationships may be
impacted by using e-procurement. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to investigate how eprocurement impacts buyer-supplier relationships and add to the literature regarding the
impact of e-procurement on buyer-supplier relationships. Thus, the main problem statement
of this thesis is:
How does e-procurement impact buyer-supplier relationships?
The research starts with a deductive approach, conducting a literature study. Furtherly,
research questions are developed to help answer the main problem statement and fill
knowledge gaps revealed by the literature. The following research questions are developed:
RQ1) How does e-procurement enhance buyer-supplier relationships? RQ2) How does eprocurement impact the balance of power in buyer-supplier relationships? RQ3) How does
information sharing through IT impact trust in buyer-supplier relationships? Qualitative
interviews are then conducted to find possible answers to the research questions and to
elaborate on the research gaps. The research then proceeds inductively by drawing
conclusions based on an analysis of the interview data. To increase validity, the findings from
the interview data were furtherly compared to the literature study. In addition, the findings
that are most relevant to the research questions are also critically assessed by adding
counterarguments. It can therefore be argued that the research is finalised with a deductive
approach, by testing its findings against the literature.
It is found that e-procurement can be used to build stronger buyer-supplier relationships by speeding up raw data transmission and by sharing information with suppliers based on knowledge gathered using e-procurement. In addition, e-procurement enables the development of a strong buyer-supplier relationship by freeing up resources which may be used for supplier development and cost reduction. By providing the buyer access to information and knowledge, it was furtherly found that e-procurement may increase the power of the buying company by increasing competence to make the right decisions. In addition, it was found that e-procurement can increase the power of the buyer through e-auctions. This is because e-auctions increase supply availability and can reveal current market prices (Smart & Harrison, 2003). Moreover, the findings show how information sharing using IT, in some cases, may not have any impact on trust while it in other cases can improve or even reduce trust. The reason why information sharing using IT may not impact trust is that it is mostly faceless. This is also why only communicating with suppliers using IT may decrease trust, along with reducing information richness sometimes. Information sharing using IT may also decrease trust if the e-procurement system that a supplier uses to share information is not well designed. If the tool functions well, the buyer’s trust in the supplier may increase, however. Furthermore, it is found that sharing information with the supplier using IT, based on knowledge gathered through e-procurement may also improve the supplier’s trust in the buyer as it indicates “good faith” from the buyer’s side (Eckerd & Hill, 2012). If the supplier’s trust toward the buyer is high, the supplier may share valuable information that the buyer didn’t know about (Li & Lin, 2006), which improves the buyer’s trust in the supplier
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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