Initial purchasing decisions such as make-or-buy decisions and supplier selection are decisions of strategic importance to companies. The nature of these decisions usually is complex and unstructured. Management Science techniques might be helpful tools for this kind of decision making problems. So far, however, the application of outranking methods in purchasing decisions has not been suggeste...

Guided by decision-making in families theory, the current study investigated the role of spousal decision-making processes on purchasing long-term care insurance (LTCI) behavior using a sample of married women (N = 292) and men (N = 277) who were not married to each other. Spousal consensus regarding LTCI as a solution to the risk of long-term care (LTC) and spousal consensus regarding affordab...

In this study, web-based consumer decision support system (WCDSS) is conceptualized, and its functionalities are examined against the stages of the online purchasing process. We propose that the WCDSS positively moderates the relationship between online transaction system and consumers purchasing decisions in terms of perceived information quality, decision time, consumer satisfaction, and inte...

We describe a formal decision-making procedure for purchasing intensive care ventilators. We adapted a general decision-making tool known as an additive, compensatory, multiattribute utility model. The model incorporates input from the various stakeholders in the decision. It identifies the factors that are important in the decision and the alternative decision options, weights the factors, ran...

Background Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health system reform around the world, especially Europe in the last decade. Iran health system and insurance, although sometimes considered the issue of strategic purchasing goals, has not been made possible to achieve or even to ...

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...