This paper reviews critique of procurement approaches within the petroleum and natural gas
sectors, whilst concurrently unveiling and scrutinizing the elements that amplify and shape …

With the background of volatile oil and gas prices, marginal oilfields, extreme locations and
new global business trends, the oil and gas industry is forced to seek better solution to …

A company's success is determined by its ability to utilize all its assets. Yet two assets often
neglected by the boardroom are the amount it spends on goods and services and the …

This paper explores the role of procurement in supplier relationships (SRs). Driven by the
importance of outsourcing, there is a widespread awareness that procurement plays an …

Purpose This study was steered to establish how buyer–supplier collaboration's commitment
attributes serve as an antecedent for procurement performance in large manufacturing …

The acceleration of change, global economy and the business challenges has made
organizations to think and integrate diverse competitive strategies in to the system. There …

This paper has two purposes. The first one is to describe and contrast the cost-reducing
efforts of original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and original design manufacturing (ODM) …

This article focuses on the negotiation of buyer–supplier relationships and the associated
activities that are required to maintain them. After analysing and distilling contributions from …

Purpose A supplier may sell not only to one buyer (sole relationship configuration) but also
to the buyers competitors (shared relationship configuration) for a specific product category …

In spite of the growing interest in the area of global procurement, limited numbers of
empirical studies, particularly cross-national studies, are available and little attention has …