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Title
Supply chain management perspectives, practices, and strategies: a private and public sector comparative study
Description
This dissertation is an exploratory study that examined the differences in perceptions about supply chain management strategy, topics, tools, and techniques between procurement professionals in public and private sector organizations. This was accomplished through a survey of procurement professionals in a Fortune 500 company and a municipality in Arizona. The data were analyzed to understand how perceptions of supply chain management differed within this sample and whether the differences in perceptions were associated with formal education levels. Key findings indicate that for this or similar samples, public procurement respondents viewed their organizations' approach to supply chain management as a narrow function within purchasing while private sector respondents viewed their organization's approach to supply chain management as a strategic purchasing perspective that requires the coordination of cross functional areas. Second, public procurement respondents reported consistent and statistically significant lower levels of formal education than private sector respondents. Third, the supply chain management topics, tools, and techniques seem to be more important to private sector respondents than the public sector respondents. Finally, Respondents in both sectors recognize the importance of ethics and ethical behavior as an essential part of supply chain management.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- Heller, Jacob (Author)
- Cayer, Joseph (Thesis advisor)
- Lan, Gerald (Committee member)
- Eden, Catherine (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vii, 92 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20862
Statement of Responsibility
by Jacob Heller
Description Source
Viewed on Apr. 6, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2013
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-92)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Public administration
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