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DECISION SCIENCES
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 33-55Publisher
DECISION SCIENCES INST, GEORGIA STATE UNIV
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb00923.x
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materials management; purchasing; structural equation models; and supply chain management
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Many manufacturing firms have increased the amount of component parts and services they outsource, while refocusing on their core capabilities. Outsourcing parts and services to independent, external suppliers means that suppliers' performance is increasingly critical to the long-term success of these buying firms. Buying firms are increasingly using disparate supplier development strategies to improve supplier performance including supplier assessment, providing incentives for improved performance, instigating competition among suppliers, and direct involvement of the buying firm's personnel with suppliers through activities such as training of suppliers' personnel. Using resource-based theory, internalization theory, and structural equation modeling, we examine the impact of these supplier development strategies on performance. We conclude that direct involvement activities, where the buying firm internalizes a significant amount of the supplier development effort, play a critical role in performance.improvement.
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