• ISBN13: 9780470843024
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Business Management
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: August 16, 2002
• Pages: 302
• Original Price: USD 82.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 513 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Purchasing & Buying

About the Book Purchasing is a function of growing interest and importance within most companies and organisations. We also live in a society where services are being produced and consumed as never before. This book aims to discuss the procurement of services in the context of the company as a whole, looking at both the integration of purchasing within the companies flow of activities and the system of supply chains which can affect the conditions for purchasing behaviour.

Bjorn Axelsson is Professor in business administration at Jonkoping International Business School and Stockholm School of Economics.

Finn Wynstra is Associate Professor at the School of Technology Management at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, and research fellow at Jonkoping International Business School.