Buyer's efficient e-sourcing structure: Centralize or decentralize?

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-164

  Dai, Rui ^a   Narasimhan, Sridhar ^a   Wu, D J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication complexity; E sourcing; Economic analysis; Organization structure; Procurement; Queuing; Reverse auction

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING; PURCHASING; QUEUEING THEORY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITY; E-SOURCING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE; PROCUREMENT; REVERSE AUCTION;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 28844505771     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2005.11045845     Document Type: Article

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