Supplier integration in complex delivery projects : comparison between different buyersupplier relationships
By: MARTINSUO, Miia
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Contributor(s): AHOLA, Tuomas.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Elsevier, feb. 2010Subject(s): Fornecedor | Compra | Administração de Empresas | Gestão de ProjetosInternational Journal of Project Management 28, 2, p. 107-116Abstract: Research on project procurement management has centered on identifying the right suppliers and managing contracts to allocate risks and responsibilities. However, working with suppliers requires continuous integration activities from the buyer during project execution. This paper asks how buyers integrate their suppliers to the project organization during project execution, and how different types of buyersupplier relationships differ in their supplier integration. We collected interview data in two complex delivery projects, both unique in their buyersupplier relationships. We explored supplier integration practices from both the buyers and the suppliers perspective, and sought cross-case differences possibly attributable to the different inter-organizational relationships. Based on the analysis, the nature of the buyersupplier relationship appears to be associated with the type of integration practices used. The results of the study have implications on how supplier integration should be configured in different buyersupplier relationships
Research on project procurement management has centered on identifying the right suppliers and managing contracts to allocate risks and responsibilities. However, working with suppliers requires continuous integration activities from the buyer during project execution. This paper asks how buyers integrate their suppliers to the project organization during project execution, and how different types of buyersupplier relationships differ in their supplier integration. We collected interview data in two complex delivery projects, both unique in their buyersupplier relationships. We explored supplier integration practices from both the buyers and the suppliers perspective, and sought cross-case differences possibly attributable to the different inter-organizational relationships. Based on the analysis, the nature of the buyersupplier relationship appears to be associated with the type of integration practices used. The results of the study have implications on how supplier integration should be configured in different buyersupplier relationships
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