Organizational learning in global purchasing: A model and test of internal users and corporate buyers

Organizational learning in global purchasing: A model and test of internal users and corporate buyers

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Article ID: iaor20031764
Country: United States
Volume: 31
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 293
End Page Number: 325
Publication Date: Apr 2000
Journal: Decision Sciences
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: supply chain, purchasing
Abstract:

This research examines a model centered on organizational learning in purchasing. Two different studies are conducted to test the hypotheses among purchasing users (Study 1) and buyers (Study 2). The user sample consists of users representing 355 strategic business units of a Fortune 500 multinational corporation. The buyer sample consists of corporate buyers of 200 multinational corporations drawn from the membership directory of the National Association of Purchasing Management. In each study, the focus is on the learning relationships between corporate buyers and internal users in the purchasing organization. Based on the two studies, the results suggest that organizational learning in the purchasing process is influenced by the organizational culture factors of localness, transformational leaderhip, and openness. Organizational learning has a positive effect on information processing in the purchasing system, which, in turn, has a positive influence on the cycle time of the purchasing process.

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