Sourcing Decisions & Relationships: This track invites submissions of full papers, working papers, abstracts and proposals for panels that encompass sourcing decisions, buyer-supplier relationships, and supply networks. Panel proposals should focus on setting a research agenda for specific topics relevant to sourcing decisions and relationships.
Possible topics of interest include:
- Buyer-supplier relationships
- Supply networks
- Outsourcing, offshoring and reshoring
- Global sourcing decisions
- Decision-making for sourcing professionals
- Specialized sourcing practices including services and lean
- Teaching in procurement and global sourcing
- Ethics and law in sourcing
- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility in sourcing
- Strategic cost management
- Total cost and life-cycle cost
- Supplier Management
- Supplier Development
- Supplier Performance Measurement
- Supplier involvement in new product development