WHY AND HOW TO INVOLVE PURCHASING IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT?

Holger Schiele, Erwin Hofman (), Bernd Markus Zunk () and Justus Eggers ()
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Holger Schiele: University of Twente, Department Technology Management/Supply, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Erwin Hofman: University of Twente, Department Technology Management/Supply, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Bernd Markus Zunk: #x2020;Graz University of Technology, Institute of Business Economics and Industrial Sociology, Kopernikusgasse 24/II, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Justus Eggers: University of Twente, Department Technology Management/Supply, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2021, vol. 25, issue 03, 1-45

Abstract: In new product development (NPD) firms increasingly have to rely on external expertise from suppliers. However, results of early supplier integration have been found to be ambiguous. This research empirically tests the hypothesis that the participation of professional purchasing agents early on in the supplier integration process plays a decisive role to distinguish successful projects. Our sample gave evidence that early supply management integration positively moderated supplier involvement’s effect on firm success. Hence, firms may benefit from avoiding supplier integration without professional purchasing management. Still, in many firms the procurement department is not yet integrated in NPD processes early on. Our research identifies four measures those firms applied, in which purchasing got fully embedded in the innovation process: top-management support, structural differentiation, explicit processes, and a collaborative corporate culture. This finding can serve as blue print for implementing purchasing integration and therewith improve the success of supplier integration in NPD.

Keywords: New product development; purchasing; procurement; supplier early involvement; purchasing integration in NPD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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