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    Strategic Outsourcing: Lessons from a Systems Integrator (2000)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Business strategy review 11 (2000), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This article explores the question of how outsourcing works in practice. ‘Telequip’, a telecoms equipment supplier, adopted a core competency strategy under which activities outside its ‘core business’ of order fulfilment were to be outsourced. Detailed research on three of the outsourcing decisions which flowed from this strategy, including attending meetings between Telequip and its suppliers, led the author to conclude that in practice it wasn't all as neat as that. He argues that Telequip used its core competency strategy to get rid of problem-ridden business activities and that outsourcing risks loss of key skills.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8616.00147
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    The potential of internet technologies: insights from the public sector (2004)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    New technology, work and employment 19 (2004), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-005X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: The objective of this paper is to examine the implications of the internet for public sector organisations. Although there are considerable barriers to the full implementation of internet technologies, the findings illustrate that the internet presents public sector organisations with the potential to enhance the ways in which they fulfil the needs of users of their products and services.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2004.00128.x
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    Electronic commerce: re-engineering the buyer-supplier interface (2000)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Business process management journal 6 (2000), S. 122-138 
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    ISSN: 1355-2503
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The aim of this article is to show how electronic commerce can fundamentally change the inter-organisational processes at the interface between the buyer and supplier. It will be shown how electronic commerce is not only enabling the redesign of internal organisational processes but is extended into both the buyer and supplier organisations. Three case studies are presented outlining how various electronic commerce technologies have been implemented in a number of buyer supplier environments. These case studies illustrate the benefits that organisations can achieve through the effective implementation of electronic commerce technologies such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and the Internet. It is also shown how in many instances electronic commerce is radically changing the way in which organisations have traditionally traded.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14637150010321295
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    Understanding the implications of ICT adoption: insights from SMEs (2003)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Logistics information management 16 (2003), S. 312-326 
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    ISSN: 0957-6053
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The phenomenon of the Internet has forced businesses and organisations to examine their existing business practices and adopt new methods of working, both for existing and potential customers. This paper presents an analysis of a pilot study of 24 SMEs, which seeks to elicit the various determinants of employing ICTs and the level of sophistication of use. The paper analyses the approach used to facilitate the introduction and implementation of new technologies, with a view to achieving integration with business processes. The discussion, based on the initial findings, examines the circumstances for ICT success and strategic effects resulting from implementation and use of such technologies. A conceptual model provides a framework for determining the level of sophistication of SMEs in their exploitation of ICTs. The findings highlight that characteristics of the firm and industry sector are contributory factors to the extent of adoption and exploitation of ICTs by SMEs, to support business processes.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09576050310499318
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    Procurement (1998)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Logistics information management 11 (1998), S. 28-37 
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    ISSN: 0957-6053
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Several formal methodologies are proposed for evaluating prospective suppliers. Three popular methods for supplier performance evaluation appear in the literature: categorical, weighted point and cost ratio. However, these techniques have a number of disadvantages associated with them and an alternative approach is suggested which applies dimensional analysis to selecting prospective suppliers. An international purchasing office (IPO), located in Hong Kong, has been applying the dimensional analysis approach to evaluating suppliers based in Hong Kong and China. Using the IPO as a case study, the article discusses the benefits of this approach over the traditional assessment methods and how it can be used to measure not only supplier performance, but also the contribution to the purchasing relationship from the buyer organisation.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09576059810202222
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    The green initiative: improving quality and competitiveness for European SMEs (1997)
    Bradford : Emerald
    European business review 97 (1997), S. 208-214 
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    ISSN: 0955-534X
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Attempts to show that environmental issues are becoming increasingly important as an attribute of the quality of goods and services. However, although firms appreciate the importance of good environmental practices there is a lack of awareness of how this can best be achieved, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Suggests that one way to enhance understanding among SMEs is to consider environmental responsibility as part of the quality attributes which customers may expect from suppliers. Presents a quality profiling approach which is based on customers' perceptions, which should assist an SME to: establish the importance of environmental factors with respect to other attributes in the purchasing decision; and evaluate the organization's performance on key product/service attributes relative to its main rivals. Discusses the role of governments and other bodies in relation to encouraging a proactive environmental approach among SMEs.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09555349710179816
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    Internet technologies: supporting transparency in the public sector (2002)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of public sector management 15 (2002), S. 170-187 
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    ISSN: 0951-3558
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: The objective of this paper is to show how Internet technologies have the potential to facilitate the achievement of transparency within public sector organisations. This change will also have a major impact on the way in which public sector organisations interact with their environment and in particular with users of their products and services. The connectivity that automatically results from Internet technologies can exert a very powerful influence in encouraging a free flow of ideas around the organisation, permitting individuals and organisational units to converge and inter-connect. It is shown how the "open" systems nature of Internet technologies can facilitate greater co-operation and communication across organisation units both internally and externally. There are significant benefits to be accrued from employing Internet technologies at the interfaces between the public sector organisation and other agencies and suppliers. At the citizen interface, it is shown how a number of public sector organisations have adopted Internet technologies, which in turn has allowed them to be more responsive to the needs of citizens. In the future, the expectations of the individual will continue to rise with increasing demands for online accessibility to organisations. Although there are considerable barriers to the full implementation of Internet technologies, the connectivity of the Internet presents public sector organisations with an immense opportunity to enhance the way in which they fulfil the needs of users of their products and services. Public sector organisations that do not embrace the technology will continue to have major problems achieving efficiencies and delivering the value demanded by citizens, particularly in the light of shrinking public sector budgets.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513550210423352
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    What multinational corporations with manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are demanding from their suppliers (2000)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Journal of small business & enterprise development 7 (2000), S. 363-373 
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    ISSN: 1462-6004
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Since the 1970s, international manufacturing companies, in pursuit of world-class goals, have been adopting and adapting management practices developed originally in Japan. Notable characteristics of such companies now include: a customer-focused culture; a concentration on core competencies with high levels of outsourcing; an emphasis on team working and manufacturing cells; low levels of stock at all stages of assembly; frequent small deliveries by suppliers directly to the production areas; a supply base of relatively few suppliers; partnership agreements with key first-tier suppliers. Such companies are aiming to produce goods of world-class quality and to do so, given the large amounts of bought-in components and sub-systems, pay a great deal of attention to the supply network. As a result, the purchasing function in these companies, as the interface with suppliers, plays a crucial role in manufacturing strategy. It is thus important to determine what multinational manufacturing companies want from their suppliers, ie what constitutes the "total package" that they want to have supplied? To this end, a total quality-based 15-criteria model of this package was developed and pre-tested with senior purchasing managers from multinational corporations (MNCs). Based on this model a survey of senior purchasing managers of 170 MNCs throughout Ireland was undertaken and this paper reports on the results from the 62 usable returns.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006853
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    The implications of electronic B2B intermediaries for the buyer-supplier interface (2004)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of operations & production management 24 (2004), S. 241-269 
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    ISSN: 0144-3577
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This paper examines the implications of electronic business-to-business intermediaries for the buyer-supplier interface. Innovations in electronic commerce have a key role to play in managing inter-organisational networks of supply chain members. The evidence presented in this paper illustrates that the Internet represents a powerful technology for commerce and communication at the buyer-supplier interface. An overview is provided of the evolution of electronic commerce at the buyer-supplier interface and the typical business models that have been developed. A theoretical framework is proposed, based on the inter-organisational relationships paradigm. A number of case studies are presented which examine the role of electronic intermediaries at the buyer-supplier interface. It is shown how the inter-organisational relationships paradigm is an effective means of evaluating the buyer-supplier interface in an electronic B2B environment. The application of the framework is discussed in relation to the three case studies and the implications for practitioners are highlighted.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443570410519024
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    Outsourcing: insights from the telecommunications industry (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Supply chain management 8 (2003), S. 380-394 
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    ISSN: 1359-8546
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The aim of this research is to identify the drivers and processes that can influence the outsourcing process in the telecommunications industry. The research focuses on a telecommunications equipment manufacturer that has outsourced a range of activities to suppliers including assembly operations, manufacturing, logistics and design. This strategy has resulted in the company becoming a "systems integrator" in which it manages and co-ordinates a network of best production and service providers. The implications of this strategy are drawn from an analysis of this company and three suppliers by analysing three outsourcing programmes over an 18-month period. There is considerable focus on evaluating the capability of activities in the value chain in relation to potential suppliers. The findings in this research challenge the value of using the core competence concept as a basis for outsourcing. In fact, the findings show that analysis and management of the supply chain can have a greater impact on the outsourcing process than attempting to unravel the complexities and intricacies of the core competence approach.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13598540310490134
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