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The Alignment Performance Link in Purchasing and Supply Management: Performance Implications of Fit between Business Strategy, Purchasing Strategy, … Logistik und Supply Chain Management) 2008th Edition
Author(s): Christian Baier (Author)
Publisher: Gabler Verlag
Publication Date: 15 May 2008
Edition: 2008th
Language: English
Print length: 246 pages
ISBN-10: 3834910570
ISBN-13: 9783834910578
Book Description
Foreword In today’s markets, companies face ever growing international competition, radical technological change, and increasingly demanding customers. These developments force managers to focus on core competencies and result in decreasing in-house val- add across industries. Adequate supplier selection and competent management of the supply base have thus become key firm success factors. As a consequence, purchasing and supply management (PSM) has developed into a powerful weapon for contributing to a firm’s competitive advantage along dimensions such as cost, quality, and inno- tion. Such a contribution, however, critically depends upon the alignment of purch- ing strategies and practices with the company’s overall business strategy. Only if the purchasing function supports the firm’s competitive position can it effectively improve profitability. Unfortunately, existing research still lacks both the theoretical concepts and empirical foundation to provide detailed guidance to practitioners regarding how such alignment can be achieved and what impact it should have on firm performance. The doctoral thesis presented by Christian Baier develops and tests a comprehensive model of the alignment-performance link in PSM in order to close this knowledge gap. Drawing on insights from the market-based view, the resource-based view, princip- agent theory, and contingency theory, the author derives a solid theoretical understa- ing of the relationships between business strategy and strategies and practices at the functional level. By applying the theory of production competence to the PSM context, two critical levels of alignment are identified: strategic alignment, i. e.
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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.
About the Author
Dr. Christian Baier promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Christopher Jahns am Supply Management Institute (SMI) der European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. Er ist als Unternehmensberater für McKinsey&Company, Inc. in Berlin tätig.
Author(s): Arlene Tickner (Editor), David L. Blaney
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 7 Feb. 2012
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0415781302
ISBN-13: 9780415781305
Book Description
A host of voices has risen to challenge Western core dominance of the field of International Relations (IR), and yet, intellectual production about world politics continues to be highly skewed. This book is the second volume in a trilogy of titles that tries to put the “international” back into IR by showing how knowledge is actually produced around the world.
The book examines how concepts that are central to the analysis of international relations are conceived in diverse parts of the world, both within the disciplinary boundaries of IR and beyond them. Adopting a thematic structure, scholars from around the world issues that include security, the state, authority and sovereignty, globalization, secularism and religion, and the “international” – an idea that is central to discourses about world politics but which, in given geocultural locations, does not necessarily look the same.
By mapping global variation in the concepts used by scholars to think about international relations, the work brings to light important differences in non-Western approaches and the potential implications of such differences for the IR discipline and the study of world politics in general. This is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the history, development and future of International Relations.
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Arlene Tickner and David Blaney explore how knowledge of the international is produced in different parts of the world in this important edited volume. They challenge the boundaries, expand the definition of the subject, and create space for a de-centering of the field of IR. They are sensitive to the diversity of ways in which theoretical knowledge is socially and historically situated and explore how concepts become rearticulated in different parts of the world. They argue that recognizing multiple traditions is necessary for a genuinely global dialogue and present a “world of worlds” in which diversity flourishes.
Thomas Biersteker, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.
This book is an immense achievement. For a discipline that claims to research and teach ‘the international’, IR has always been a provincial place. Unthinking traditional conceptions of world politics is a steep challenge, yet meeting it has now become possible with Thinking International Relations Differently.
Tim Dunne, University of Queensland.
IR theorists in the Anglophone world mostly (but not entirely) outside North America have often celebrated the diversity and critical edge of their contributions―and not without significant cause. Yet this enterprise in International Relations theory has singularly and spectacularly failed to attend to the European-modern episteme upon which most of the many fascinating manifestations of theory of the international claim their authority to speak of global order in general terms. Is this failure born of reticence, blindness or ignorance? Whatever the case, such a phenomenon provokes a more fundamental question: is International Relations theory an impossibility?
If you apprehend this question with some urgency, or, if you simply find it an interesting provocation, then Thinking International Relations Differently is obligatory reading.
Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary, University of London
About the Author
Arlene B. Tickner is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Her main areas of research include IR in non-core settings, Latin American security and Colombian foreign policy. She is the co-editor (with Ole Wæver) of Global Scholarship in International Relations, (2009).
David L. Blaney is Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. He works on the social and political theory of IR and IPE and questions of culture and identity. His recent books (both with Naeem Inayatullah) include International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004) and Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010).
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