Artificial intelligence (AI) can affect all of a company’s functions, not least the purchasing department. In addition to automating and optimizing existing processes, AI opens up new opportunities for purchasers undertake new, strategic, collaborative, enduring missions. enables complex, strategic decision-making in an unpredictable, hostile environment. This article analyzes what extent impro...

PROBLEM High out-of-pocket payments and user fees with unfunded exemptions limit access to health services for the poor. Health equity funds (HEF) emerged in Cambodia as a strategic purchasing mechanism used to fund exemptions and reduce the burden of health-care costs on people on very low incomes. Their impact on access to health services must be carefully examined. APPROACH Evidence from t...

Electronic reverse auction (e-RA), an online and real-time auction between a buying organization and two or more invited suppliers, has recently received substantial attention in supply chains. While a recent survey has found a dramatic increase in firms’ interest and participation in e-RA, it also revealed that a large number of purchasing managers are not willing to use e-RA. With the potenti...

Considering the growing externalisation of strategic activities, the problem of the control of buyersupplier relationships is crucial. Therefore, researchers usually propose modes of control that are adapted to various environments. However, the organisations are often considered as “black boxes” whose goals are unspecified. This paper examines buyer-supplier control configurations that take in...

The authors investigated a type of buyer-seller relationship that occurs when a supplier becomes deeply involved in a manufacturer’s new product development activity; this is often called Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) in industry These relationships are interesting because they embody interorganizational issues and strategic concerns arising from new product development. Survey data collecte...

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