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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Alignment Performance Link in Purchasing and Supply Management
    sub title: Performance Implications of Fit between Business Strategy, Purchasing Strategy, and Purchasing Practices
  name:
    name part: Baier, Christian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 231 p. online resource.
  abstract: Purchasing and supply management (PSM) has developed into a discipline of major strategic importance for effectively competing in today’s global marketplace. To leverage PSM’s strategic value creation potential, the decisions and activities of the purchasing function must be aligned with the firm’s overall strategic orientation. Despite general agreement on this matter, research and practice lack knowledge on how exactly such an alignment can be achieved and what performance implications it has. Christian Baier empirically investigates the alignment performance link in PSM. Drawing on the market-based view, resource-based view, principal agent theory, and contingency theory, the author suggests that the relative fit among a firm’s business strategy, its purchasing competitive priorities, and its purchasing practices is key to achieving superior business performance. Results from profile deviation and hierarchical regression analysis of data collected globally from 141 chief purchasing officers in firms with revenues greater than USD 3 billions present strong empirical support for this hypothesis. Baier’s findings provide clear guidance to practitioners on how to design their purchasing strategies and practices to achieve maximum alignment and thus effectively contribute to the firm’s competitive advantage.
  table of contents: Problem situation and research approach -- A theoretical perspective on the contribution of PSM to the generation of competitive advantage -- A conceptual model of the alignment-performance link in PSM -- An empirical analysis of the alignment-performance link in PSM -- Summary and conclusions.
  note: by Christian Baier.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Industrial procurement
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Procurement
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  classification: HD39.5
  classification: 658.72
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      title: Springer eBooks
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