International Journal of Procurement Management  (IJPM)
ISSN (Online): 1753-8440  -  ISSN (Print): 1753-8432

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   Objectives

The main objective of IJPM is to provide a platform for interaction between researchers and practitioners who are dealing with procurement function and supply management. The journal also promotes and coordinates developments in the field of procurement and supply management. Due attention will be given to procurement and supply management in both private and public sector organisations.

The global dimension is emphasised with the objective of overcoming various cultural and political barriers and in turn to meet the needs of effective management of procurement and supply in the global market through appropriate technological and organisational changes. IJPM aims to provide the executives and academics with the state of the art of procurement and supply strategies, techniques and tools. Furthermore, the journal will facilitate the exchange of information about procurement and supply management among researchers and practitioners in the field of procurement and supply management.

   Readership

IJPM acts as a vehicle to help professionals, practitioners, academics and researchers, working in the field of procurement and supply management, to disseminate information and latest developments and to learn from each other’s research.

   Contents

IJPM publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in procurement and supply management will occasionally be published.

   Subject Coverage

Topics covered by IJPM include but are not limited to:

• Procurement and supply management strategies
• Procurement and supply systems
• Supplier development
• Alignment of purchasing strategy with corporate strategy
• Global procurement and supply development
• Performance measures and metrics in procurement and supply management functions
• IT/IS such as ERP and RFID in procurement and supply management activities
• E-procurement
• Environmental issues and procurement
• Outsourcing
• Cost models for procurement
• Ethical standards in procurement activities
• Green supply management
• Purchasing
• Implementation of sustainable procurement
• Selling consortiums
• Reengineering procurement processes
• Inventory management
• Procurement challenges in public sector organisations and military establishments
• Demand management
• Benchmarking in procurement and supply management
• Procurement and project management
• Modelling and analysis of procurement and supply functions
• Supplier management
• Measuring and communicating the impact of procurement and supply management
• Human resource management in procurement function
• Procurement teams and organisation
• Agile procurement and supply systems
• Evaluating costs and benefits of procurement and supply functions
• Measuring supplier performance
• Corporate social responsibility in supply base selection and management
• Supplier relationship protocols
• Supply risk management
• Managing supplier innovation

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran
Director, Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC)
University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Department of Decision and Information Sciences
Charlton College of Business
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
USA
agunasekaran@umassd.edu

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Jalal AshayeriJa
Tilburg University
Dept. of Econometrics and Operations Research
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg
NETHERLANDS

Prof. Yossi AvivYo
Washington University
Olin School of Business
Campus Box 1133
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis MO 63130
USA

Prof. Peter J. BattPe
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U 1987
Perth, WA 6845
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Corey BillingtonCo
IMD Business School
Chemin de Bellerive 23
Ch-1001 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND

Prof. Arnt BuvikAr
Molde University College
Department of Economics
P.O. Box 2110
6402 Molde
NORWAY

Prof. Guy CallenderGu
Curtin University of Technology
Curtin Business School
GPO Box U1987
Perth, Western Australia 6845
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Joseph R. CarterJo
Avnet Professor of Supply Chain Management
Arizona State University
W. P. Carey School of Business
Campus Box 874706
Tempe, AZ 85287-4706
USA

Prof. Joseph CavinatoJo
ISM Professor of Supply Chain Management
Thunderbird School of Global Management
15249 North 59th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85306-6000
USA

Dr. Charu ChandraCh
University of Michigan – Dearborn
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
2230 Engineering Complex Building
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128-1491
USA

Prof. Pankaj ChandraPa
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Vastrapur
Ahmedabad - 380105
INDIA

Prof. Frank Y. ChenFr
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering
Shatin, N.T.
HONG KONG (CHINA)

Prof. Poul Erik ChristiansenPo
Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg
DENMARK

Prof. Jacques ColinJa
Director, CRET-LOG
Universite De La Mediterranee (Aix-Marseille II), France
413 Avenue Gaston Berger
13625 Aix en Provence Cedex 1
FRANCE

Prof. Andrew CoxAn
University of Birmingham
Business School
Centre for Business Strategy and Procurement
University House, Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham, B15 2TT
UK

Prof. John CullenJo
Professor of Accounting
University of Sheffield
Management School
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 4DT
UK

Prof. Marc DayMa
Henley Management College
Greenlands
Henley-on-Thames RG9 3AU
UK

Prof. Anna DuboisAn
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Technology Management and Economics
S-412 96 Gothenburg
SWEDEN

Prof. Stanley E. FawcettSt
Brigham Young University
Marriott School of Management
668 Tanner Building
Provo UT 84602
USA

Dr. Mark FrancisMa
Senior Research Associate
Cardiff University
Lean Enterprise Research Centre
Cardiff Business School
Aberconway Building, Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
UK

Prof. Soumen GhoshSo
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Management
800 W. Peachtree St., NW
Atlanta, GA 30308-0520
USA

Prof. Theodore S. GlickmanTh
George Washington University
Department of Decision Sciences
School of Business
413 Funger Hall, 2201 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
USA

Prof. Mark GohMa
Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
NUS Business School
2 Law Link
Singapore 117592
SINGAPORE

Prof. Andrew Peter GravesAn
Lean & Agile Programmes
University of Bath
School of Management
Bath BA2 7AY
UK

Prof. Paul GriffinPa
Georgia Institute of Technology
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
USA

Prof. Christine HarlandCh
Director, Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS)
University of Bath
School of Management
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
UK

Prof. Terry HarrisonTe
Earl P. Strong Executive Education Professor of Business and Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Penn State University
Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Smeal College of Business
459 Business Building
University Park, PA 16802
USA

Prof. Keith HartleyKe
Director, Centre for Defense Economics
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK

Prof. Kajsa HulthénKa
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Technology Management and Economics
SE-412 96 Gothenburg
SWEDEN

Prof. Christopher JahnsCh
Rector of the European Business School; Executive Director
Supply Management Institute SMI
Soehnleinstrasse 8
D-65201 Wiesbaden
GERMANY

Prof. Tauno KekäleTa
Head
University of Vaasa
Department of Production
P.O. Box 700
65101 Vaasa
FINLAND

Prof. Robert D. KlassenRo
Professor, Operations Management; J.J. Wettlaufer Faculty Fellow
University of Western Ontario
Ivey Business School
1151 Richmond Street
London, Ontario N6A 3K7
CANADA

Prof. Ik-Whan G. KwonIk
Director, Consortium for Supply Chain Management Studies
St. Louis University
John Cook School of Business
3674 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
USA

Prof. Michael LewisMi
University of Bath
School of Management
Bath, BA2 7AY
UK

Prof. Michel LéonardMi
University of Geneva
CUI
24 rue du General Dufour
CH-1211 Genève 4
SWITZERLAND

Prof. Douglas K. MacbethDo
University of Southampton
School of Management
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BL
UK

Dr. Rachel Mason-JonesRa
Head of Division
University of Glamorgan
Supply Network Management Division
Business School
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL
UK

Prof. Alan McKinnonAl
Heriot-Watt University
Logistics Research Centre
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
UK

Prof. Laura MeadeLa
Texas Christian University
Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
M.J. Neeley School of Business
TCU Box 298530
Ft. Worth, TX 76129
USA

Prof. Charles MunsonCh
Washington State University
Department of Management and Operations
PO Box 644736
Pullman, WA 99164-4736
USA

Prof. Ernest L. Nichols, Jr.Er
Director, FedEx Center for Supply Chain Management
The University of Memphis
FedEx Institute of Technology
Suite 201 365 Innovation Drive
Memphis, TN 38152-3115
USA

Prof. Andreas NorrmanAn
Lund University
Department of Industrial Management and Logistics
P.O. Box 118
221 00 Lund
SWEDEN

Prof. Gilles PacheGi
University of Montpellier
CRET-LOG
413 Avenue Gaston Berger 13625
Aix-en-Provence Cedex
FRANCE

Prof. John PearsonJo
Arizona State University
Department of Supply Chain Management
W. P. Carey School of Business
Campus Box 874706
Tempe, AZ 85287-4706
USA

Prof. Paul PhillipsPa
University of Kent
Kent Business School
Parkwood Road
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7PE
UK

Prof. Gustavo PigaGu
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Columbia 2
00133 Rome
ITALY

Prof. Kim Leng PohKi
National University of Singapore
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Singapore 119260
SINGAPORE

Prof. Philip PricePh
Chairperson
University of Alaska Anchorage
Department of Logistics
22350 Elkhorn Circle
Eagle River, AK 99577
USA

Prof. Mohammed QuaddusMo
Curtin University of Technology
Curtin Business School
78 Murray Street
Perth, Western Australia 6000
AUSTRALIA

Prof. P. RadhakrishnanP.
Vice Chancellor
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore-632014, Tamil Nadu
INDIA

Prof. Jacques ReijniersJa
Nyenrode Business Univesiteit
Sweelincklaan 35
3723 JB Bilthoven
NETHERLANDS

Prof. Jean-Philippe RennardJe
Grenoble Ecole de Management
2, rue Pierre Sémard
BP 127
38003 Grenoble Cedex 01
FRANCE

Prof. Joseph J. SchieleJo
MBA Program
Oakland University School
School of Business Administration
308 Elliot Hall
Rochester, MI 48309
USA

Prof. Dr. Willem SelenWi
Middle East Technical University
Northern Cyprus Campus
Kalkanli-Guzelyurt
Mersin 10
TURKEY

Prof. Janat ShahJa
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Production and Operations Management Area
Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore 560076
INDIA

Prof. Fred SollishFr
Institute for Supply Management
25 Homestead Street
San Francisco CA 94114
USA

Prof. Johan StahreJo
Head, Division of Production Systems
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Product and Production Development
SE-412 96 Göteborg
SWEDEN

Prof. Zoltan SzegediZo
St. Stephen University
Department of Operations Management
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, GTK
Pater K. u. 1.
2103 Godollo
HUNGARY

Prof. Robert TrentRo
Lehigh University
Rauch Business Center
621 Taylor Street
Bethlehlem, PA 18015
USA

Prof. Rao TummalaRa
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Computer Information System
College of Business
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
USA

Prof. Munirpallam A. VenkataramananMu
Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business Administration; Chairperson, Undergraduate Programs
Indiana University
Kelley School of Business
1309 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
USA

Prof. V. VenugopalV.
Nyenrode Business University
Center for Supply Chain Management
Nyenrode School of Business
Straatweg 25
3621 BG Breukelen
NETHERLANDS

Prof. Steve WaltonSt
Associate Dean and Program Director of the Full-time MBA Programs
Emory University
Department of Decision and Information Analysis
Goizueta Business School
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta GA 30322-2710
USA

Prof. Richard WildingRi
Cranfield University
Cranfield School of Management
Bedford MK43 0AL
UK

Prof. Joe ZhuJo
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Management
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
USA

Prof. George A. ZsidisinGe
Bowling Green State University
Department of Management
College of Business Administration
Bowling Green, OH 43403
USA