Gerhard Trautmann explains the relationship between global sourcing strategy and organization design.

1 Einfuhrung 1.1 Problemstellung und Zielsetzung Die Situation der Beschaffung in der offentlichen Verwaltung Deutschlands ist derzeit stark durch die folgenden Umstande gepragt: Da die verfugbaren Finanzmittel beispielsweise durch rezessive Tendenzen, hohe Arbeitslosigkeit, Schuldendienst und Pensionslasten des offentlichen Dienstes knapper werden und die Ausweitung der offentlichen Aufgaben in quantitativer und qualitativer Hinsicht sowie Verwaltun- ineffizienz den Finanzbedarf anwachsen lassen, steigt die Differenz zwischen Fina- bedarf und verfugbaren Finanzmitteln (LUHMANN 2004, S. 143,...

Roger Moser analyses the relationships between business priorities and PSM strategy and shows in detail how business strategies influence PSM. He develops a PSM strategy concept which enables supply managers to break down strategic priorities from a business strategy level to a PSM level and to define appropriate actions when dealing with suppliers, supply markets and internal customers.

Low-cost country sourcing has for long been one of the hottest buzz words in the purchasing and supply management community, especially among practitioners. The lack of coverage in the academic field can potentially be explained by the complexity and the breadth of the topic. Although companies in most industries have sourced on a global level for decades or even centuries in order to reduce cost, the subject have received increasing attention over the last few years in a sense that the concept has become more and more institutionalized as part of the overall sourcing strategy. The...

Andreas Potzner beschreibt Innovationskooperationen entlang der Supply Chain, bestimmt deren Erfolgswirkung, erklart wie wichtig gewisse Rahmenbedingungen fur das Zustandekommen von Innovationskooperationen sind und warum Innovationskooperationen durchgefuhrt werden. Damit wird erstmals ein theoretisch fundierter und praktisch relevanter Einblick in die Thematik der Innovationskooperationen entlang der Supply Chain der europaischen Aviation-Industrie geboten.

Supply management has received increased attention both in research and practice only recently. For decades, purchasing management was considered one of the least complex business functions. However, in a world of decreasing in-house value add in nearly all industries, it has become strategically critical for most companies to pay closer attention to purchasing spend. Many companies found that there is a lot more to have from suppliers than "the right goods at the right place at the right time." Several researchers investigating the transition from traditional purchasing to strategic supply...

Foreword Among researchers in the business and management disciplines, there is some kind of a common understanding that research should provide models, concepts and solutions for practical problems. In other words: research is practice-oriented and, personally, I subscribe to this maxim. Still, sometimes, it is important to pause for a moment and reflect upon one s own activities. The present thesis is one of those comparatively few pieces of research that do so by dealing with the scientific side of research and by asking a number of questions that target at the identification of the nature...

st Since the beginning of the 21 century, three key business trends have been identified with a pronounced influence on future microeconomic and macroeconomic developments across the globe: Firstly, with the advent of the network economy, int- organizational relations and structures are increasingly becoming the object of analysis. Successful companies have extended the concept of an appropriate organizational structure beyond internal relationships to those spanning across the entire business network by taking the country specific institutional context into consideration. Secondly, with...

Die vorliegende Arbeit verbindet zwei Themen, zu denen jeder Manager oder Berater auf Grund tiefer praktischer Einblicke eine Meinung hat: Einkauf und Hotels. Jeder kennt die Aussage: Im Einkauf liegt der Gewinn. Jeder versucht, bei der Hotelbuchung den besten Preis auszuhandeln. Jeder Gast hat hochste Anspruche an Raume, Ausstattung, Servicequalitat und Hotelpersonal unabhangig vom bezahlten Preis. Dies gilt erst recht fur den Hotelbesuch im gehobenen Preissegment ab 3 Sterne. Christine Schuffler beleuchtet dieses Spannungsfeld mit unmittelbarer Auswirkung auf die Profitabilitat von Hotel...

Peter F. Drucker, one of the world's most influential management gurus of all times, once said that "the best way to predict the future is to create it." In other words, those managers who systematically study the future have also the power to shape and influence the future. By the means of anticipation they can prepare for the expected as well as the unexpected which allows them to react more flexible and faster than competitors. Futures research, i.e. the interdisciplinary and systematic analysis of the future, has matured to both a theoretic- conceptual and application-oriented research...