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Inclusive Business at the Base of the Pyramid: The Role of Embeddedness for Enabling Social Innovations by Lashitew, Addisu A., Bals, Lydia, van Tulder, Rob

“…Inclusive businesses that combine profit making with social impact are claimed to hold the potential for poverty alleviation while also creating new…”
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Integration of the buyer–supplier interface for Global sourcing by Bals, Lydia, Turkulainen, Virpi

“…While global sourcing often implies that the firm needs to, for example, redesign the procurement organization and make decisions on what to centralize and…”
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INTEGRATION IN THE GLOBAL SOURCING ORGANIZATION - AN INFORMATION PROCESSING PERSPECTIVE by TRAUTMANN, GERHARD, TURKULAINEN, VIRPI, HARTMANN, EVI, BALS, LYDIA

“…Global sourcing refers to the integration of decision making across worldwide purchasing units within a multinational corporation (MNC). In order to manage the…”
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An Agency Theory perspective on the purchase of marketing services by Tate, Wendy L., Ellram, Lisa M., Bals, Lydia, Hartmann, Evi, van der Valk, Wendy

“…The purchase of business services has become an important part of organizations' acquisition of external resources, and is therefore receiving growing…”
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A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision by McIvor, Ronan, Bals, Lydia

“…•This conceptual paper offers a framework for understanding location and governance choice in the reshoring decision.•It employs the eclectic paradigm, the…”
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Achieving Shared Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Value Creation: Toward a Social Resource-Based View (SRBV) of the Firm by Tate, Wendy L., Bals, Lydia

“…While the economic and environmental dimensions of the triple bottom line (TBL) have been covered extensively by management theory and practice, the social…”
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Implementing sustainable purchasing and supply management (SPSM): A Delphi study on competences needed by purchasing and supply management (PSM) professionals by Schulze, Heike, Bals, Lydia

“…This research is about a Delphi study that was conducted in the context of the development of a competence model for sustainable purchasing and supply…”
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Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in Purchasing and Supply Management: Organization design and outsourcing by Bals, Lydia, Turkulainen, Virpi

“…As a function with a strategic role, Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) needs to continuously find ways to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. One…”
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Reshoring and insourcing: drivers and future research directions by Foerstl, Kai, Kirchoff, Jon F, Bals, Lydia

“…Purpose – Reshoring and insourcing decisions have been discussed in the popular press, yet coverage of these topics in the academic literature is limited. The…”
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Purchasing managers' willingness to pay for attributes that constitute sustainability by Goebel, Philipp, Reuter, Carsten, Pibernik, Richard, Sichtmann, Christina, Bals, Lydia

“…Considering the increasing international division of labor, as well as stakeholders' growing awareness of sustainability, assuring that business practices are…”
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Base of the chain (BoC) sourcing challenges: The role of institutional voids and social agency problems by Zomorrodi, Maryam, Fayezi, Sajad, Bals, Lydia

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Purchasing and supply management (PSM) competencies: Current and future requirements by Bals, Lydia, Schulze, Heike, Kelly, Stephen, Stek, Klaas

“…Purchasing & Supply Management (PSM) competencies are the individual-level foundations of organisational PSM performance. In light of recent developments in…”
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Creating social value at the bottom of the pyramid: Elaborating resource orchestration via social intermediaries by Bals, Lydia, Huang, Feigao, Tate, Wendy L., Rosca, Eugenia

“…Overcoming constrained resources and enabling social, environmental, and economic value creation for stakeholders remains a managerial challenge. Small…”
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Creating Social Value for the ‘Base of the Pyramid’: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda by Lashitew, Addisu A, Narayan, Somendra, Rosca, Eugenia, Bals, Lydia

“…A growing body of research looks into business-led efforts to create social value by improving the socio-economic well-being of Base of the Pyramid (BoP)…”
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Geopolitical disruptions and supply chain structural ambidexterity by Moradlou, Hamid, Skipworth, Heather, Bals, Lydia, Aktas, Emel, Roscoe, Samuel

“…Purpose This paper seeks insights into how multinational enterprises restructure their global supply chains to manage the uncertainty caused by geopolitical…”
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Evolving Purchasing and Supply Organizations: A contingency model for structural alternatives by Bals, Lydia, Laine, Jari, Mugurusi, Godfrey

“…Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) is under significant pressure to find levers to further increase its contribution to corporate goals. In order to…”
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Sustainable Supply Chain Design in Social Businesses: Advancing the Theory of Supply Chain by Bals, Lydia, Tate, Wendy L.

“…A significant conceptual and practical challenge for companies is how to integrate triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability into their global supply chains. In…”
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Toward a circular supply chain: The enabling role of information and financial flows in open and closed loop designs by Bals, Lydia, Taylor, Kelsey M., Rosca, Eugenia, Ciulli, Francesca

“…•Research lacks insights on circular supply chain design.•Five cases serve to elaborate the role of information and financial flows.•Open and closed loop…”
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Exploring the reshoring and insourcing decision making process: toward an agenda for future research by Bals, Lydia, Kirchoff, Jon F., Foerstl, Kai

“…The topics of reshoring and insourcing have recently become more widely discussed among operations management and international business scholars and managers,…”
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Procurement sustainability tensions: an integrative perspective by Fayezi, Sajad, Zomorrodi, Maryam, Bals, Lydia

“…Purpose The purpose of this paper is to unpack tensions faced by procurement professionals as part of their triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability activities…”
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