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1. Supplier Involvement in Product Development: A Supplier Perspective
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the supplier perspective of supplier involvement in product development. Supplier involvement in product development is crucial for many companies to increase resource flexibility, access competence, reduce costs and time to market, among others. LÄS MER
2. Supplier Involvement in New Product Development under Technological Uncertainty
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the challenges that firms are faced with when collaborating with suppliers in new product development (NPD) projects under technological uncertainty. A critical observation that is made in this context is that technologies are evolving faster, making products more complex. At the same time, firms become more specialized. LÄS MER
3. Initiating and developing a supplier base in a new context
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore the initiation and development of a supplier base in a new context from the perspective of a firm. An abductive approach was used to make a case study of the development of a supplier base in China by a Swedish firm, FlexLink. LÄS MER
4. Managing across organisations : intra- and interorganisational aspects of supplier involvement in product development projects
Sammanfattning : Supplier involvement in product development is widely regarded as an essential strategy, benefiting product development tinle, costs, and product quality. However, this strategy also increases the dependencies between the buyer and the involved supplier and has therefore implications for coordinating supplier involvement. LÄS MER
5. Strategic sourcing in the age of e-business : prerequisites in manufacturing industries
Sammanfattning : Strategic sourcing (i.e. relationship, sourcing and negotiation strategies) has, by the introduction of the Internet and e-business, get hold of a variety of possibilities supporting the classical sourcing guiding principle, such as electronic marketplaces, reversed e-auctions, online communication tools, software agents and the like. LÄS MER