Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) decisions, such as make-or-buy or vendor selections, are highly dependent on the cooperation of several functions in decision-making teams in order to make more holistic and effective decisions. However, members of cross-functional PSM teams often also pursue diverse goals rooted in functional incentive structures that may lead to misalignment and competition. One of the resulting problems are so-called “organizational politics”, being self-serving influence attempts among functional representatives. Examples can be nondisclosure of information, coalitions, or lobbying to protect unidimensional functional interests that potentially obstruct effective PSM decision making. So far, PSM scholars have made exploratory and inductive inquiries in team politics while the larger body of research on politics exists outside the PSM scope. Thus, as PSM scholarship transcends toward deductive theory testing designs on team politics, the fields is at risk taking isolated perspectives and failing to deduce from the extant disaggregated “general management” literature on politics. In response to this emerging trend, we review 91 contributions to the organizational literature on politics at the individual, team or group, and dyadic (individual-individual) level to build a future research framework on politics in real-world cross-functional PSM decision-making teams. To do so, we distinguish thematic areas of interest and derive future avenues for research in light of ongoing PSM debates on human resource management in PSM, leadership in PSM teams, and top management support of PSM. Furthermore, we derive epistemological, instrumental, and theoretical guidance on how to approach politics in cross-functional PSM teams.

采购和供应管理（PSM）决策（例如制造或购买或供应商选择）在很大程度上取决于决策团队中多个职能部门的合作，以便做出更全面，更有效的决策。但是，跨职能的PSM团队的成员也常常追求植根于职能激励结构中的各种目标，这可能会导致不协调和竞争。由此产生的问题之一就是所谓的“组织政治”，即职能代表之间自私影响的尝试。例如，不公开信息，联盟或进行游说以保护可能阻碍有效PSM决策的一维功能利益。至今，PSM学者对团队政治进行了探索性和归纳性的查询，而更大范围的政治研究存在于PSM范围之外。因此，当PSM奖学金超越了关于团队政治的演绎理论测试设计时，这些领域正处于冒险状态，无法采用孤立的观点，也无法从现成的，关于政治的“一般管理”文献中推论得出。为了响应这一新兴趋势，我们回顾了个人，团队或团体以及二元（个人-个人）层面对政治组织文献的91篇贡献，以构建未来在现实世界中跨职能PSM决策中的政治研究框架。制作团队。为此，我们将针对PSM中有关人力资源管理的持续PSM辩论，区分感兴趣的主题领域，并得出未来的研究途径，PSM团队的领导层，以及PSM的最高管理层支持。此外，我们就如何在跨职能PSM团队中处理政治问题提供了认识论，工具和理论指导。