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Avoiding the pitfalls of cooperative purchasing through control and coordination: insights from a humanitarian context

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  • Heidi Herlin
  • Ala Pazirandeh

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In this paper, barriers to the success of cooperative purchasing are discussed from an inter-organisational coordination perspective and a framework for successful cooperative purchasing is introduced. Potential benefits such as economies of scale, better transparency and more efficient information exchange have generated high interest for cooperative purchasing as a supply chain strategy. However, literature notes several instances of such cooperation not having the expected outcomes. We aimed to further the understanding of the coordination barriers to the success of cooperative purchasing. By studying an exemplary situation of an unsuccessful cooperative purchasing, the attractiveness and inherent complexity of a cooperative purchasing process is highlighted. This study draws on and adds to the existing literature on cooperative purchasing by discussing coordination related barriers to cooperative purchasing and provides managerial insights into what to consider when engaging in the cooperative purchasing strategy to avoid the pitfalls.

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  • Heidi Herlin & Ala Pazirandeh, 2015. "Avoiding the pitfalls of cooperative purchasing through control and coordination: insights from a humanitarian context," International Journal of Procurement Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(3), pages 303-325.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpman:v:8:y:2015:i:3:p:303-325
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    1. Moshtari, Mohammad & Altay, Nezih & Heikkilä, Jussi & Gonçalves, Paulo, 2021. "Procurement in humanitarian organizations: Body of knowledge and practitioner's challenges," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    2. Rameshwar Dubey & David J. Bryde & Cyril Foropon & Gary Graham & Mihalis Giannakis & Deepa Bhatt Mishra, 2022. "Agility in humanitarian supply chain: an organizational information processing perspective and relational view," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 319(1), pages 559-579, December.
    3. Abhishek Behl & Pankaj Dutta, 2019. "Humanitarian supply chain management: a thematic literature review and future directions of research," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 283(1), pages 1001-1044, December.
    4. Gyöngyi Kovács & Ioanna Falagara Sigala, 2021. "Lessons learned from humanitarian logistics to manage supply chain disruptions," Journal of Supply Chain Management, Institute for Supply Management, vol. 57(1), pages 41-49, January.

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