Innovation and Commoditization: Prioritizing and Profiling Asian Managers’ Cross-Border Sourcing Practices

The paper investigates several sourcing practices and argues that two main behavioral constructs, supply commoditization and supply innovation, underlie many of these practices. It then develops hypotheses involving these constructs and company profiling ratios such as revenue per employee. The pape...

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Main Author: SESHADRI, Sudhindra
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3117
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4116/viewcontent/SeshadriWeb.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:The paper investigates several sourcing practices and argues that two main behavioral constructs, supply commoditization and supply innovation, underlie many of these practices. It then develops hypotheses involving these constructs and company profiling ratios such as revenue per employee. The paper reports on survey research with a subset of ASEAN country based purchasing managers; on new scales. The results contribute to a growing literature on dynamic customer value in business markets and sourcing competencies. The paper also discusses managerial implications for sales targeting and sales approaches arising from the model.