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Purchasing management in the luxury industry: organization and practices

Authors: Davide Luzzini, Stefano Ronchi

Published in: Operations Management Research | Issue 1-2/2010

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Traditional supply chain models were developed mainly for non-luxury companies and find very little correspondence in the field of luxury, which is considered here as a business super-area including heterogeneous enterprises, belonging to different sectors, which have in common customers characterized by the “need for luxury”. The objective of this paper is to investigate, through a multiple case-study research, peculiar purchasing and supply management practices put in place by luxury firms and to provide a classification of the most recurring approaches. Relevant dimensions (i.e. product complexity and sale volume) to classify luxury firms practices have been used: as a result, four groups of companies have been identified and their purchasing practices described.

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Title: Purchasing management in the luxury industry: organization and practices
Authors: Davide Luzzini
Stefano Ronchi
Publication date: 01-03-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Operations Management Research / Issue 1-2/2010
Print ISSN: 1936-9735
Electronic ISSN: 1936-9743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-009-0024-4

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