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Journal articles on the topic "Purchasing activity"

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Dobie, Kathryn, James Grant, and Kathryn Ready. "Product Motivation and Purchasing Activity." Journal of Promotion Management 6, no. 1-2 (March 2001): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j057v06n01_04.

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Michaels, Ronald E., Anand Kumar, and Sridhar Samu. "Activity-Specific Role Stress in Purchasing." International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management 31, no. 4 (December 1995): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-493x.1995.tb00275.x.

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Loader, Kim. "Supporting SMEs through Government Purchasing Activity." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 6, no. 1 (February 2005): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/0000000053026383.

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As major consumers of goods and services, governments have an opportunity to support SMEs directly through their purchasing policies. This study examines the experience of SMEs in the north-east of England in their attempt to supply UK public sector organizations, and finds that, despite recent initiatives, barriers are being experienced by the majority of SMEs surveyed. The findings suggest that both government and small business sectors face challenges, such as resolving policy conflicts, managing resource demands and facilitating organizational change, in overcoming these barriers. Further investigation is required to inform the resolution of these demands.
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Gao, Lei, Jin-Li Guo, Chao Fan, and Xue-Jiao Liu. "Individual and group dynamics in purchasing activity." Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392, no. 2 (January 2013): 343–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.047.

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Malyavkina, L. I. "TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF PURCHASING ACTIVITY AUTOMATION." Education and Science without Limits: Fundamental and Applied Researches, no. 10 (November 25, 2019): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.36683/2500-249x-2019-10-181-185.

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Introduction of information systems supporting purchasing activity allows essentially raising the efficiency of purchasing processes, control of purposeful expenditure of funds and providing full operations transparency for their participants. Expansion of automation systems functionality in purchasing activity under modern conditions of economy digitalization should be based on the use of innovative digital technologies.
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Sheldon, T. A., and M. Borowitz. "Changing the measure of quality in the NHS: from purchasing activity to purchasing protocols." Quality and Safety in Health Care 2, no. 3 (September 1, 1993): 149–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/qshc.2.3.149.

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Pye, Jo, and David Ball. "Purchasing consortia: trends and activity in the UK." Bottom Line 12, no. 1 (March 1999): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08880459910256717.

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Berg, Carla J., Regine Haardörfer, Zachary Cahn, Steven Binns, Yoonsang Kim, Glen Szczypka, and Sherry Emery. "The Association between Twitter Activity and E-cigarette Purchasing." Tobacco Regulatory Science 5, no. 6 (November 1, 2019): 502–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18001/trs.5.6.3.

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Objectives: Industry, policymakers, researchers, and others have interest in social media, assuming that they influence – or reflect – individual behavior, despite limited supporting research. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) emerged in the United States in the past decade alongside strong social media presence, making ENDS relevant for examining this issue. In this study, we examined monthly ENDS-related Twitter activity (tweet volume) in relation to monthly ENDS purchasing among ENDS purchasers. Methods: Data from 2105 Nielsen Consumer Panel households with any ENDS purchases from October 2012 to September 2015 were examined, accounting for ENDS advertising expenditures, state-level tobacco environment, and consumer characteristics. Results: ENDS-related purchases and twitter volume increased over time; advertising expenditures did not increase at the same level. Bivariate analyses indicated that ENDS purchases increased over time (p < .001) and were related to lower designated market area advertising expenditures (p = .025), higher cigarette taxes (p = .015), and older consumer age (p = .001). Among ENDS purchasers, multivariate analyses indicated that purchases correlated positively with tweet volume but negatively with advertising expenditure measures. Conclusions: Social media (eg, Twitter) may offer platforms for monitoring and/or intervening with respect to ENDS use, and potentially the ENDS industry, which engages in social media.
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Subhan, Subhan, and Muhammad Reza Ramdani. "Audit Manajemen Atas Bahan Baku Untuk Meningkatkan Efisiensi dan Efektivitas CV.Ladjalani di Makassar." Jurnal Ilmiah Akuntansi dan Keuangan 9, no. 1 (January 24, 2020): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.32639/jiak.v9i1.350.

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This study examines the effectiveness of management audits of raw materials in the company CV. Ladjalani in Makassar. The purpose of this study to determine the activity of purchasing raw materials has been carried out efficiently and effectively. This research approach uses a descriptive quantitative approach. The method of data collection is done by observing directly the object of research and making direct observations, documenting archives or reports related to the activity of purchasing raw materials, questionnaires to find out the response to the researcher's questions on company activities. From the results of the study showed the activity of purchasing raw materials carried out by CV. Ladjalani is still inefficient and effective. This can occur due to waste of transportation costs or the cost of shipping raw materials. This waste occurs because the company establishes a policy on the purchasing department to purchase raw materials after getting an order. The company has not yet determined what frequency of purchasing the most economical raw materials.
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Slama, Mark E., and Armen Tashchian. "Selected Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics Associated with Purchasing Involvement." Journal of Marketing 49, no. 1 (January 1985): 72–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224298504900107.

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This research develops a Likert-type scale to measure final consumers' involvement with the purchasing activity. The scale is employed to test hypotheses concerning relationships between market characteristics and purchasing involvement. Purchasing involvement is found to be related to sex, education, income, and stage of the family life cycle.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Purchasing activity"

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BLACKNE, JOHANNES, and NIKLAS JANSSON. "Visual Planning and KPIs in purchasing: Effective Activity Planning and Follow-Up." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-141774.

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The purpose of the master thesis is to find a way to plan activities, visualize them and follow-up on these activities. The Visual Planning method is used at Scania Production, R&D and at Scania Purchasing. However, the method doesn‟t fit the purchasers‟ communication and coordination needs. Furthermore, a majority of purchasing activities is disrupted due to unexpected events or deviations, which may cause delays.Hence, the thesis will result in a proposal of an effective planning and follow-up method that fits the need of the purchasing environment in general and more specifically in the purchasing group SGC. The proposing solution should handle deviations, be easy to use and visualize activities on an individual and aggregated department level.To find the best solution, an internal benchmarking and a review of best practice literature was carried out during the thesis. Observations at Scania Production, R&D and purchasing department were also carried out along with external interviews.Key findings included that handling deviances have a higher priority than commercial activities such as cost saving activities. Additionally, there is no standardize way of activity planning at SGC, cost has higher than quality and delivery and the Visual Planning method does not fit Scania‟s purchasing organization due to different needs of communication and coordination.Hence, the proposal included recommendations to introduce two milestones to the planned activities, collect all performance measurements in a balanced scorecard and an improved way of handling deviations. Furthermore, recommendations regarding the Visual Planning method included that the method should be used daily, where an agenda should structure the communication and the method should be adapted to fit the group‟s need of communication and coordination.
Syftet med examensarbetet var att finna ett sätt att planera aktiviteter, visualisera samt följa upp dem. Visuell planering används på Scanias produktionsanläggningar, forskning och utveckling samt på deras inköpsavdelning. Dock passar inte metoden inköparnas behov av kommunikation och koordination. Vidare blir inköparnas aktiviteter avbrutna av störningar som resulterar i förseningar.Detta examensarbete kommer därför att föreslå en effektiv planerings- och uppföljningsmetod som passar inköparnas behov, specifikt inköparna på gruppen SGC. Lösningen skall hantera störningar, vara enkel och använda samt visualisera aktiviteter på individuell och gruppnivå.För att finna bästa lösningen genomfördes en intern benchmarking och en litteraturstudie. Observationer på Scanias produktionsanläggningar, forskning och utveckling samt inköpsavdelning genomfördes tillsammans med intervjuer med externa respondenter.Från empirin framgick det att hantera störningar har högre prioritet än kommersiella aktiviteter så som kostnadsbesparingsaktiviteter. Vidare finns inget standardiserat sätt att planera aktiviteter hos SGC, kostnad har högre fokus än kvalitet och leverans samt att visuell planering inte passar inköpsorganisationens behov av kommunikation och koordination.Lösningsförslaget inkluderar förslag till att införa delmål till de planerade aktiviteterna, att alla mätetal samlas ihop till ett balanserat styrkort samt ett förbättrat sätt att hantera störningar. Vidare ges förslag att visuell planering skall fortsätta att användas dagligen, med en agenda som strukturerar kommunikationen för att passa gruppens behov för kommunikation och koordination.
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Schwertner, Stefan. "An activity based competency model for ANSP purchasing professionals : a case study at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2015. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3433/.

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With the role of purchasing evolved from a paper pushing function to a strategic and value creating player in global businesses (Espich, 2004), the activities of purchasing professionals today are knowledge- and competence driven. The purpose of this study is to identify the competency needs of purchasing professionals at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), Europe’s largest Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP). It also seeks to explore the role of implicit participant knowledge in the process of competency identification and model development. For these reasons, a mixed-method case study at DFS is conducted. After reviewing the literature, a purchasing competency model is developed from scratch through exploring the target population’s self-image on competency needs and by contrasting these results to the view of purchasing department’s internal customers and management. The so developed model is then verified through participant observations and the identification of the implicit knowledge of competency needs of purchasing professionals. The study contributes to business practice and the theory of competency modeling. It identifies competencies in an area where little is known about competency requirements and explores the need to consider implicit participant knowledge in the model development process. The research outcomes are valuable to solve a real-world problematic situation through developing an activity based, multi-perspective and future oriented competency model. The study provides an example of how the aspect of implicit knowledge can be integrated when studying competencies. Results from this case in Europe’s leading ANSP are likely to be transferrable to other companies in the industry.
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Pflügler, Christoph M. [Verfasser]. "Measuring Purchasing and Supply Management Efficiency : A Complex Event Processing Approach based on Total Cost of Ownership and Activity-based Costing / Christoph M. Pflügler." Aachen : Shaker, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1067735097/34.

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Poláček, Tomáš. "Riziko výběru dodavatele s využitím fuzzy logiky." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232721.

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Diploma thesis analyzes and evaluates problems selecting a contractor for the Faculty of Chemistry VUT Brno for using fuzzy logic in MS Excel and MATLAB Mathworks Inc. The result will be a choice of one or more suppliers who meet pre-specified criteria and collide possible risks common to the activity of selecting a supplier to the minimum possible.
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Katz, Meredith Ann. "The Politics of Purchasing: Ethical Consumerism, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in the United States." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29661.

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Although the United States is the worldâ s leading consumer nation, limited empirical research exists on the relationship between consumer choices and political participation. This study provides the first quantitative analysis of the demographic characteristics, motivations, and political activities of political and ethical consumers in the United States. Ethical consumers are broadly defined as socially responsible consumers including the subset of political consumers. Political consumers, while also socially responsible, are primarily concerned with achievement of political or social change through purchasing decisions. While political and ethical consumers engage in similar behaviors, the distinguishing factor between the two is motivation. Participation in both political and ethical consumerism is measured through buycotting (intentionally purchasing) or boycotting (intentionally abstaining from purchasing) of particular products or companies. Based on data from the 2002 National Civic Engagement Survey II, this study finds income and education significantly predict participation in political and ethical consumerism, while race and gender do not. Across political parties, the stronger a respondentsâ political affiliation, the less likely they are to boycott or buycott. This study also finds the primary motivation of participation for 80 percent of boycotters and buycotters is altruistic (ethical consumerism) rather than the achievement of political objectives (political consumerism). Additionally, political and ethical consumers indicate little belief in the ability for their purchases to alter business practices and do not consider their actions a part of organized campaigns. Political and ethical consumers are politically active and individuals who contact public officials, protest, and sign email or written petitions are significantly more likely to boycott or buycott than those who do not. In lieu of these findings, suggestions are offered to consumer-activist groups and social change organizations concerning rationales of consumer motivation and political engagement in the hopes this information will be utilized to mobilize a broader base of citizen-consumers.
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Aronsson, Henrik, and Paul Kato. "Brand activism, does it work? : A quantitative study on how advertising that contains elements of social activism affects consumer-based brand equity and how it in turn affects consumer purchasing engagement." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54508.

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Date: 3 June Level: Master Thesis in Business Administration, 15 credits Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University Authors: Paul Kato (95/03/11) and Henrik Aronsson (95/10/29) Title: Brand Activism, does it work? Tutor: Edward Gillmore Keywords: Brand activism, brand equity, social activism, attitudes, woke washing Research questions: a. How is the consumer-based brand equity affected by a company’s use of social activism in its marketing? b. How does this in turn affect consumer purchasing engagement? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how consumers respond tosocial activism advertisements and how it influences their purchaseengagement. Method: The method used in this thesis is a quantitative research with anabductive research approach. The data has been collected through anonline survey and received 504 responses. Conclusion: Advertising that contains social activism has an overly positive impact onconsumer attitudes, purchasing engagement, and corporate consumerbasedbrand equity.
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Karlsson, Måns, and Marielle Sundfeldt. "Värdeskapande aktiviteter inom leverantörskedjan : Integration av leverantörskedjan för att uppnå långsiktiga samarbeten." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-56713.

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Under de senaste decennierna har hantering av leverantörsrelationer blivit en viktig konkurrensfaktor för företag världen över. Denna uppsats kommer delvis att presentera teorin bakom hantering av leverantörsrelationer och integrera den med värdesamskapande vilket är ytterligare en viktig aspekt för företag som önskar att implementera ett vinn-vinn-tänk med sina samarbetspartners. Studien har genomförts på inköpsavdelningen på Valmet i Karlstad med syfte att identifiera vad som är värdeskapande i ett leverantörsförhållande. Den empiriska datan har analyserats för att sedan omvandlas till aktiviteter som kan appliceras i ett tidigt skede av en produkt/projektcykel. Detta leder in på Design to Cost vilket utgör den tredje och sista grunden för litteraturstudien av detta arbete.   Denna studie inleddes med en litteraturstudie, med fokus på de tre huvudämnena; hantering av leverantörsrelationer, värdesamskapande och Design to Cost. Denna studie sammanställdes sedan i ett teoretiskt ramverk som följdes upp med en kvalitativ datainsamling. Semistrukturerade intervjuer användes under två olika delar av studien, först intervjuades anställda på Valmet i Karlstad och därefter företagets leverantörer. Under analysen jämfördes insamlad data med det teoretiska ramverket.   Resultaten visar att värdesamskapande i studiens kontext främst bygger på kommunikation och tillit. Det är också viktigt att veta i vilken fas involveringen av leverantörer bör uppnås. Eftersom det här är en studie som fokuserar på Design to Cost, rekommenderas det att involvera leverantörerna i ett tidigt skede. Som ett resultat ökar antalet möjligheter och samarbetet är mindre begränsat av tekniska designbeslut etc.   De identifierade aktiviteterna från analysen har prioriterats i en matris och en rekommendation har skapats delvis till Valmet, men också till liknande branscher. Eftersom resultatet bygger på empirisk data analyserad ur ett teoretiskt perspektiv, kan det därför motiveras att lösningarna är generella i en viss utsträckning och därmed tillämpbara i andra kontext. Aktiviteterna har delats in i 4 teman; kommunikation, samarbete, informationsdelning och kategorisering. Förslagen på aktiviteter berör bland annat utbildning, uppföljning och återkoppling, intern benchmarking, utvecklingsplaner, tvärfunktionella team, kvalitetssäkring, prognostisering, kostnadsnedbrytning samt kategorisering av leverantörer/kund och produkter.
In recent decades supply relationship management have become a competitive factor for companies worldwide. This master thesis will partly address the theory of supply relationship management and integrate it with value co-creation, which is an additional important aspect for companies wanting to implement a win-win thinking with their collaborative partners. The study have been conducted at the purchasing department at Valmet in Karlstad with the purpose of identifying value creation in a supplier relationship. The empirical data have been analyzed to represent activities that can be applied in an early stage of a product/project cycle. This leads to Design to Cost, which constitutes the third and last foundation for the literature study of this work.   This study started with a literature review, focusing on the three main subjects; supply relationship management, value co-creation and Design to Cost. This review was then concluded by a theoretical framework and followed up with a qualitative data collection. Semi-structured interviews were used in two different parts of the study, first with employees at Valmet in Karlstad and then with their suppliers. During the analysis the data was compared to the established theoretical framework.   The results show that value co-creating in the study's context is based foremost on communication and trust. It is also important to know at what phase the involvement should be accomplished. As this is a study focusing on Design to Cost it is recommended to involve the suppliers at an early stage. As a result more opportunities are given and the cooperation is less restrained by any technical design decisions etc.   The identified activities from the analysis have been prioritized and a recommendation have been created partly to Valmet, but also to similar industries. As the result is based on empirical data analyzed from a theoretical perspective, it can therefore be justified that the solutions are general to a certain extent and thus applicable in other contexts. The activities have been divided into 4 themes; communication, collaboration, information sharing and categorization. For instance, the proposals for activities concern education, follow-ups and feedback, internal benchmarking, development plans, cross-functional teams, quality assurance, forecasts, cost breakdown as well as categorization of supplier/customer and products.
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Pei-YiYu and 余佩怡. "Predict Purchasing Needs behind User Queries to Recommend Activity-Goods Pairs." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39908289698682315347.

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User need prediction is an important problem, as it will largely improve user experience such as saving user efforts. In our work, we want to predict users’ purchasing needs according to queries about purchasing goods and recommend suitable activity-goods pairs. For example, a user wants to purchase running shoes and issues the query “running shoes” on a search engine to search goods. We surmise that this user purchase running shoes for running a marathon or having a jogging habit. Therefore, “marathon” and “jogging” are user needs that we predict. Moreover, for user needs “marathon” and “jogging”, we recommend activities such as “marathon competitions” and “jogging competitions” and matching goods such as “sport wristbands” and “towels” to the user. We observed blog articles and found that blog articles about purchasing goods are always contain user needs. Moreover, titles from auction websites are contain user needs as well. Therefore, we proposed to predict user needs via analyzing queries, blog articles and titles from auction websites. In our work, We classified user needs in to three aspects: style, entity and action. We employed Conditional Random Field (CRF) to label blog articles and titles rom auction websites and further discover user needs of the three aspects. Further, we find suitable activity-goods pairs and recommend them to users.
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Lin, Chia-An, and 林家安. "Purchasing Activity under Electronic Material Shortage-Power Supply Industry as an Example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57714871165761131686.

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The Finance Tsunami on 2008 impacted the worldwide electronic industry so much. Every business made production reducing/inventory reducing and lay off their employees. When the economic became better on 2009, this causes the word wild material shortage. But vender has no willing to increasing their production capacity due to the economic risk concern and the market become more difficult. Even people willing to pay more but still can not get material. How does the purchaser work during this environment? Our purpose was to interview the actual purchaser work in power supply industry top leader; trying to find a solution which can balance "Short time cost " and "Long Term material available". During the interview and data collection; all the respondents replied one very important point. The vender management strategy of case company is to use annual price negotiation instead of half-annual / quarterly price negotiation which were normally used at this industry. This strategy maintains stable vender relationship and make vender more willing to deliver the material. Compare the delivery hit rate to the other company in this industry after 2009, the vender management strategy of case company was worth to reference.
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Li, Deng Can, and 李登燦. "An empirical study on center factory-satellite factories purchasing activity in T company." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77205778285664869395.

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Books on the topic "Purchasing activity"

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Raftery, James. Hospital activity changes and total purchasing in 1996/7. London: King's Fund, 1999.

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Pye, Jo. Library purchasing consortia in the UK: Activity, benefits and good practice. Somerset: Capital Planning Information, 1999.

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Trim, Peter R. J. An insight into purchasing activity in the Netherlands and the U.K.. Canterbury: University of Kent at Canterbury, 1992.

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Pye, Jo. Library purchasing consortia in the UK: Activity, benefits and good practice. Bournemouth: Bournemouth University Library & Information Services, 1999.

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Pye, J. Library purchasing consortia in the UK: Activity, benefits and good practice. Bournemouth: BLRIC, 1998.

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State commercial activity: A legal framework. Claremont [South Africa]: Juta, 2009.

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Frank, Dana. Purchasing power: Consumer organizing, gender, and the Seattle labor movement, 1919-1929. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Pye, J. Library purchasing consortia in the UK: Activity, benefits and good practice : final report of BLRIC Research Project RIC/G/403. [Poole]: Bournemouth Univ. Library & Info.Services, 1999.

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John, Cullen, and Institute of Management, eds. Managing financial resources: An activity pack for tutors and trainers. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.

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Allegations of misconduct at the General Services Administration: Hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Purchasing activity"

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Tatarovsky, Y. A. "Analytical Support of the Retailer’s Purchasing Activity Security." In Engineering Economics: Decisions and Solutions from Eurasian Perspective, 454–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53277-2_54.

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Obstfeld, David. "Mobilizing to Advance Creative Projects: NewCar’s Prototype Parts Purchasing Activity." In Getting New Things Done. Stanford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804760508.003.0005.

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This chapter illustrates the BKAP model through an extended ethnographic case to show how network and knowledge processes interact to produce project-based innovation. An ethnographic case study in the same automotive setting found in Chapter 4 illustrates the emergence of creative projects launched in pursuit of innovation. Specifically, this chapter depicts how an automobile manufacturer’s prototype parts purchasing routine contrasts with two creative projects undertaken to redesign it. The chapter elaborates how trajectory strategy, consisting of the trajectory projection and scheme, and trajectory management, consisting of knowledge articulation, brokerage activity, and an additional category emerging from the author’s field data—contingency management—impact the two projects’ adoption. To lay the groundwork for how the two creative projects emerged, the author describes the “cowboy culture” presented in the Introduction, a culture imprinted within NewCar that gave rise to behaviors through which creative projects were pursued.
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"5. Mobilizing to Advance Creative Projects: NewCar’s Prototype Parts Purchasing Activity." In Getting New Things Done, 143–68. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503603097-007.

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Ardley, Barry, Jialin Hardwick, Lauriane Delarue, and Nick Taylor. "Mobile Phone Purchasing and Brand Presence on Facebook." In Brand Culture and Identity, 643–60. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7116-2.ch035.

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Focusing on the mobile phones sector, this study explores how the social networking site ‘Facebook' is used by consumers in their purchasing. Although there is extensive work on the influences on the buying decision process relevant to mobile phone purchasing, it is mainly set outside of a social media context. This paper assists in filling a gap in contemporary research, revealing the presence of different behavioural segments on Facebook. The authors analyse the consumer decision sequence in response to the notion of ‘brand presence', manifested through online advertising, fan and group pages. The approach is interpretative. The study is based on young professional user's experiences, collected through semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. The findings show that Facebook fan pages are shown to have a degree of influence, particularly in the early stages of buying behaviour. In this context, five novel behavioural segments of consumer interactions with Smartphone brands on Facebook have been identified by the research. These are the Avoider, the Suspicious, the Passive, the Receptive, and the Active. Future research of cross comparative studies could be taken on the issues the authors examine and consider them in relation to not only Facebook, but additionally, to other social network sites. Companies could utilise the findings in the future development of social media strategy. The research highlights the socially networked and collective nature of much activity on Facebook, which impacts on the consumer decision-making process for mobile phones.
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Moreira, António Carrizo, Luis Miguel D. F. Ferreira, and Pedro Miguel Freitas da Silva. "Inward Internationalization." In Handbook of Research on Intrapreneurship and Organizational Sustainability in SMEs, 250–75. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3543-0.ch012.

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The existing literature on internationalization and purchasing is vast; however, the inward internationalization perspective is an under-researched topic. In this chapter, the authors review the literature on internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to understand the main reasons behind international purchasing and the role of experience on internationalization. Using a survey and descriptive statistics, the results from 56 respondents show that SMEs source from a small number of countries and hold those relationships for several years. The main reasons underlying international purchases are lower prices and better product quality, regardless of goods availability on the domestic market. This chapter has some limitations concerning its exploratory nature, pertaining to its sample size. Some future research avenues are presented such as a deeper look on how internationalization processes differ when SMEs begin their activity by inward rather than by outward activities.
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Yener, Dursun. "Social Impact in Consumer Behaviour-Consumer Boycotts as a Consumerism Activity." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 22–35. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2139-6.ch002.

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Consumerism is not a new concept for marketing, but its importance is growing in the recent years. Researchers have studied the phenomenon of consumerism from within different dimensions. However, its relationship with social impact theory and consumer boycotts has not been dealt with accurately. Social impact can be defined as the effect of people on other people. A consumer boycott is a type of consumer behaviour in which consumers collectively prefer not to use their purchasing power towards a product, brand or all products of a country and boycott them. Motivations for participating in boycotts differ in accordance with various factors such as consumers' beliefs, needs or attitudes. Organizing a boycott and calling for people's participation is much easier today than it used to be in the past. Since consumer boycotts is a type of consumer behaviour and consumers are affected various factors including people in their family or friends or members in their reference groups, they can be thought a derivation of social impact.
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Sodenkamp, Mariya A., and Leena Suhl. "A Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection and Order Allocation GDSS using a Mixed Alternative and Value Focused Thinking Approach." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 108–38. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5958-2.ch007.

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Vendor selection and order quantity assignment plays a central role in the purchasing activity of manufacturing and trading companies. Evaluation of product and service suppliers for procurement planning requires, on the one hand, accurate identification and exploration of all decision relevant parameters. On the other hand, effective agreements must tackle all parties’ rights, obligations, interests, motives, and values, which are usually conflicting in nature. In this chapter, the authors address the problem of expert group structuring and formalization of participant competences by distinguishing among the a-, ß-, and ?-level experts responsible for the value system establishment, alternatives assessment and auxiliary objects evaluation, respectively. Experts can belong to more than one task community. The triples of a-, ß-, and ?-voting power indices are assigned to the individuals depending on their competence/authority. Moreover, the presented Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)-based framework facilitates selecting appropriate suppliers by the distributed expert groups and improves the quality of order allocation decisions. The usefulness of the proposed approach is demonstrated for the fuel oils and crops purchasing activities in the trading department of Raiffeisen Westfalen Mitte eG in Germany.
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"Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism." In Purchasing Power, 216–37. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291650-011.

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Carnero, María Carmen, and Andrés Gómez. "Multicriteria Model for the Selection of Maintenance Policies in Subsystems of an Operating Theatre." In Optimum Decision Making in Asset Management, 32–61. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0651-5.ch002.

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The aim of this article is to select the most suitable combination of maintenance policies in the different subsystems that make up an operating theatre. To do so a multicriteria model will be developed using the Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique (MACBETH) technique considering multiple decision centres: The Hospital's technical services, environment and occupational risk prevention managers, healthcare managers (operating theatres and health activity programming), healthcare staff, technicians, purchasing service managers and Hospital executives. The model uses functional, safety and technical-economical criteria, amongst which is availability. Mean availability for repairable systems has been measured to assess this criterion, using Markov chains from the data obtained over three years from the subsystems of a Hospital operating theatre. All this is aimed at increasing the operating theatre's availability and, consequently, increasing physical safety in patient operations and reducing the number of delayed operations due to technical malfunctions.
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Schopp, Susan E. "The French Hong: Daily Work Life and Operations." In Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698-1842, 95–108. Hong Kong University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528509.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 examines the French hong as a workplace. The workload was busiest at the beginning and end of the trading season; in addition to involving selling, selecting, purchasing, and delivery of cargo, the trade generated an enormous volume of supporting documentation in the form of contracts, receipts, permissions, correspondence, etc. The life of the Chinese employees is underrepresented in the archival records, but excerpts from an individual’s 1789 diary provide a detailed personal glimpse into one trader’s daily activity. Among the challenges affecting staff performance were interpersonal rivalry and the difficulty of adjusting, or not, to a climate and culture that were significantly different from those of Europe. The French referred to their Canton commercial establishment as a comptoir, a term that could be applied to both the physical and the intangible entity, and over the decades, its administration assumed several different forms; staff composition and salaries likewise varied. However, there were times, especially during periods of warfare or national unrest, when there was no French representation at Canton.
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Conference papers on the topic "Purchasing activity"

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Huang, Xiaoyan, Wei Liu, and Wei Liu. "Optimization of purchasing business of plasticizing enterprises based on activity-based costing." In Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Humanities Science and Society Development (ICHSSD 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ichssd-19.2019.118.

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Dos Santos, Suzani, Robson De Melo, and Nivaldi Calonego Junior. "Arcabouço de Vigilância Inteligente para Operações de Compras Eletrônicas no Contexto de Smart Cities." In Escola Regional de Informática de Mato Grosso. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/eri-mt.2019.8588.

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Intelligent surveillance systems aim to identify suspicious activity beyond the observation of people and environments, as computer networks and computer systems remain vulnerable to malicious actions. The intelligent surveillance framework (Arcabouço de Vigilância Inteligente - AVI) uses the cognitive construction of a user profile and the recognition of devices for electronic purchases, aiming to ensure the authenticity of transactions for computer systems in networked interconnected. The AVI assessment shows that it is effective with respect to user authenticity and that the smart surveillance model in purchasing operations matches the expectation of vulnerability reduction.
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Agustina, Bella Nadhifah, Harry B. Santoso, and Suci Fadhilah. "Usability Evaluation of Purchasing Activity Flow on Three Leading E-Commerce Platforms9 Mobile Version in Indonesia: Case Studies Shopee,Tokopedia, and Bukalapak." In 2019 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and information Systems (ICACSIS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icacsis47736.2019.8979843.

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Parishev, Aleksandar, Goran Hristovski, Petar Jolakoski, and Viktor Stojkoski. "E-COMMERCE IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH." In Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future. Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics-Skopje, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47063/ebtsf.2020.0017.

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Ever since the dawn of merchanting, traders have sought ways to ease the cost of transactions. The recent growth of information and communication technology provided a wide range of solutions for international and national transactions by introducing ecommerce. As a result of this development, e-commerce recently emerged as a dominant transaction activity with a significant impact on the national economies. In recent years the potential of e-commerce has been widely discussed, with a particular focus on its effects on greater economic welfare and prosperity. Yet, despite an abundance of studies that have been done on investigating the role of e-commerce in an economy, a thorough and detailed econometric examination on its impact is still an underexplored avenue. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by investigating the impact of volume of online transactions (e-commerce) and gross capital formation on economic growth, using panel data on 31 European countries covering a 16 years’ period. The empirical panel data model is estimated by employing the Generalized Method of Moments. The main findings from the study show that e-commerce and gross capital formation have positive and significant effects on GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity, with e-commerce having a weaker development-enhancing effect in comparison to gross capital formation. In addition, this paper proposes a fruitful discussion on how to provide balance between the growth of e-commerce, the focus on improving other aspects and generating optimal economic welfare and prosperity. Our paper ends with directions for future research.
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Ergenç, İsmail Erkut. "Customer Requirement Factors in Selection of E-Commerce Infrastructure Service Provider in Post-Covid-19: An AHP Application." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.006.

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In today’s complex world, businesses actively use various methods to deliver goods and services to customers. Due to the active entry of the internet into people’s lives and the increase in the number of purchases made on the internet recently, businesses must actively use the internet in their marketing activities to achieve a competitive advantage. Especially after COVID-19, many businesses have had to perform their activities over the internet due to public health measures. In addition to supporting the promotion activities of the internet, direct marketing, customers purchasing products through e-commerce, and delivering some services online has become a competitive strategy and one of the methods actively used by businesses today. In this context, businesses have become more willing than before to set up their own e-commerce websites. To this end, this study reveals the features that businesses can use in determining the features they need in the selection of ecommerce infrastructure. The study suggested that 21 features for e-commerce sites were grouped among themselves in the context of e-service quality dimensions included in the ES-QUAL and e-Recs-QUAL scales, and importance ranking was performed using the AHP method.
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