In the past few decades there has been an increased awareness on the potential impact of managing supply chains in such a way to stimulate sustainable behavior. A related, more recent trend is the growing attention for the circular economy, based on the vision that the dominant paradigm of linear thinking is not sustainable.
The growing concern for organizations’ social responsibility and sustainable behavior has been accompanied by considerable awareness of how organizations manage their supply chains.
80% of organizations have to deal with supply chain disruptions every year. Many of them originate upstream, from the supplier. As such, managing risks is one of the key tasks for every purchaser. While knowledge about how to manage risk in the purchasing department has developed steadily, many challenges and possibilities for improvements remain.
Veel landen in de wereld kampen met de uitdaging van stijgende zorgkosten, die vaak harder stijgen dan het BNP of het besteedbaar inkomen. In een poging de zorgkosten te beheersen, maar ook om kwaliteit en toegankelijkheid te bevorderen, hebben overheden een splitsing tussen inkoop en levering van zorg in het zorgsysteem ingevoerd.
The construction industry is a large, fragmented market in which construction firms operate in a decentralized network of suppliers and customers. Projects within this industry can be seen as temporary organizations among and within the organizations involved.
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To deal with today’s high demands on the purchasing function, sourcing teams have become an increasingly popular form of organization in large corporations. Sourcing teams have been installed widely with high expectations. Success, however, is not guaranteed.
This chapter introduces the four papers that together constitute my doctoral thesis on alliance management. I start with a theoretical overview of the main concepts under study, followed by the rationale for the research and its method.