purchasing inpatient care services from private providers may not be a suitable strategy for such contexts. …Background: Improvements in the financing of healthcare services are important for developing countries like India to …

paper investigates which individual factors support packaging free purchasing and what barriers hinder consumers to purchase … unpackaged food products. Additionally, it is tested whether the perception of barriers towards purchasing unpackaged food … products mediates the influence of pro-environmental personal norms on purchasing unpackaged food products. The main barriers …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the … purchasing may be oriented, and c) suggest promising areas for future research. …

individual parts. This paper explains how additive manufacturing will influence purchasing processes and network structures of … processes of purchasing. Traditional purchasing and modern processes affected by the implementation of additive manufacturing … of benefits e.g. reduced inventory. This exploration of the impact of additive manufacturing is focused on purchasing …

Uncertainty about what constitutes ethical conduct has increased markedly for purchasing people in recent years. This … article reports the results of a study that was conducted jointly by Ernst & Whinney and NAPM's Center for Advanced Purchasing … Studies, with support from Purchasing World magazine. Thirty-nine states, the District of Columbia, and Canada were …

concerns how to measure the outputs of goods and services which are "free at the point of delivery". Public services such as … schools and health services are major examples of this kind. Over a decade ago, Sir Tony Atkinson provided a principled … output should be measured as the value added by the services concerned, where this equates to the incremental contribution to …

-based research, the extent of the use of strategic cost management (SCM) techniques and business performance in services. An … empirical survey was conducted on a sample of 88 services in Greece. The analysis of the survey data indicates that the use of … strategic cost management techniques in services can be considered quite satisfactory. By drawing on the grounds of contingency …

This essay discusses the rationale for economic charter change through the lens of services reform and identifies three … services as an engine of economic growth and development in the 21st century, the paper recommends addressing these issues and …