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Title: | Global purchasing strategy: Conceptualization and measurement | Authors: | QUINTENS, Lieven PAUWELS, Piet MATTHYSSENS, Paul |
Issue Date: | 2006 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Source: | INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 35(7). p. 881-891 | Abstract: | In this paper we introduce Global Purchasing Strategy (GPS) as an explanatory construct of global purchasing performance. GPS is embedded in a contingent resource-based view. The construct is conceived as the driving force behind the strategy-organization alignment. GPS is conceptualized along four dimensions: the configuration of the global purchasing process, the standardization of the global purchasing process, the standardization of product-related characteristics and the standardization of the purchasing staff organization. We develop the GPS scale and test it on a sample of 151 internationally purchasing firms. The analytic results show evidence of both reliability and validity. We propose a general model of global purchasing performance with GPS as a central mediating construct. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | Notes: | Hasselt Univ, Fac Appl Econ Sci, Dept Business Adm, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. Maastricht Univ, Fac Econ & Business Adm, Dept Mkt, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands. Univ Antwerp, Fac Appl Econ Sci, Dept Management, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Erasmus Univ, Dept Mkt Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands.Quintens, L, Hasselt Univ, Fac Appl Econ Sci, Dept Business Adm, Campus Diepenbeek,Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.lieven.quintens@uhasselt.be p.pauwels@mw.unimaas.nl paul.matthyssens@ua.ac.be | Keywords: | global purchasing strategy; purchasing organization; centralization; standardization; internationalization | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/2798 | ISSN: | 0019-8501 | e-ISSN: | 1873-2062 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.indmarman.2006.05.009 | ISI #: | 000239881200010 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2007 |
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