Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. This paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.The models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. Outside and local s...

supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments. this importance is increased even more by new strategies in a supply chain, because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer’s company. supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equall...

The rapid growth in online sales shows that online purchase has become a mainstream for modern consumers to acquire goods and services. In this research, we propose to use Prospect Theory as the theoretical basis to account for consumers’ psychological states in an online purchasing environment. In particular, we aim to empirically investigate whether social comparison acts as an essential fact...

In this article, we identify success factors for managing small and intensive purchasing groups by comparing successful and unsuccessful Dutch purchasing groups in a large-scale survey. Transaction costs economics and social exchange theory are used as theoretical frameworks for our broad empirical investigation. We found that the success factors studied that are related to interorganizational ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differences in definitions of socioeconomic status and between study designs hinder their comparability across countries. We aimed to analyze the correlation between 3 widely used macrosocioeconomic status indicators and clinical outcomes. METHODS We selected population-based studies reporting incident stroke risk and/or 30-day case-fatality according to prespecified cr...

BACKGROUND Health workers' purchasing power is an important consideration in the development of strategies for health workforce development. This work explores the purchasing power variation of Mozambican public sector health workers, between 1999 and 2007. In general, the calculated purchasing power increased for most careers under study, and the highest percentage increase was observed for th...

Patients with suspected myocardial infarction (MI) now account for a considerable proportion of acute medical admissions, whose number seems to be rising inexorably. Figure 1 shows the rise in such admissions to the Nottingham hospitals since 1982.1 No sensible provider is going to agree anything with a purchaser, based on the previous year's figures, even though we might have hoped that the nu...