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Inkoop, Leveranciers en Innovatie: Van VOC tot Space Shuttle
Full text linkFinn Wynstra is professor by special appointment in Purchasing and Supply Management at RSM Erasmus University, on behalf of the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management (NEVI) and the 'Vereniging Trustfonds EUR'. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and conducted his PhD research at the Department of Technology Management, Technical University Eindhoven, and Uppsala University (Sweden). His research is focused on the role of suppliers in product innovation and has been published in, among others, Accounting, Organizations & Society, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management and Journal of Supply Chain Management. Finn Wynstra is co-author of two books (Buying Business Services, and Developing Sourcing Capabilities, Wiley) and Editor of Journal of Purchasing an Supply ManagementPurchasing and supply management studies the initiation, design, control and evaluation of activities within and between organisations aimed at obtaining goods and services from suppliers. Already during the times of the "Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie", purchasing turned out to be an important function that could provide a substantial contribution to business success. More recently, the significance of purchasing and supply management has only grown, due to the trend towards increased specialisation and vertical disintegration. At the same time, incidents such as the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters have demonstrated that effective purchasing and supply management is far from simple. Education and research in this area is thus of great importance.As a management research discipline, purchasing and supply management is fairly young and can be dated back to the mid-1960s. The last 15-20 years, however, a more specialist, distinct field has been developing. In doing research in this field, theories and concepts developed in other areas such as Operations Management and Marketing are highly relevant. The risk, however, of becoming a more distinct research area, is that these neighboring disciplines tend to be disregarded. A multi-disciplinary approach in studying purchasing and supply management could limit such a risk
IPSERA ten years and beyond
No full textBased on a review of ten years' conference proceedings and a survey among some of its members, this papers develops a view of the past, present and future of the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association-IPSERA.<br/
Networking activities in supply networks
No full textThe paper traces the origin of the concept of supply networks and focuses on nine different networking activities related to the process of establishing and operating supply networks. These activities are associated with the linking of activities, tying of resources and bonding of actors. Findings from two extensive case studies of supply networks are discussed, focusing on the process of networking in a series of relationships in a set of supply chains constituting each network. The findings reveal some important links between individual activities i.e. specific networking activities that appear to be mutually supportive. Furthermore, positive and negative connections between activities performed in different relationships within each supply network i.e. network effects, are identified
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