- A case-based study of large Danish companies

The background to the study is distinctive changes in recent years in companies' buying practice owing to e.g. increased focus on customer needs, outsourcing, flexible production forms, supply chain management, corporate social responsibility and globalisation. To 'upstream' companies in the international - and sometimes global - supply chains, such knowledge is not only relevant, it is absolutely necessary to be able to take stock of the company's own situation and future strategy. Therefore, the project aims to uncover and document these changes.

The empirical study will be based on a number of large Danish companies with a global business strategy. In the first place, these companies have traditionally been customer companies in the so-called underbrush of small, Danish companies, including the sub-contractors. Secondly, we must assume that the companies apply best practice in their buying and supplier management in an international perspective, which means that we can find similar practices applied in foreign customer companies.

The project is carried out in cooperation with the Centre for Sub-suppliers (CFU), which also finances the project.
For more information, please contact Britta Gammelgaard via e-mail: bg.om@cbs.dk or telephone 3815 2894.