A Review of Public Administration Research: Where Does Public Procurement Fit In?

Trammell, Evelyn; Abutabenjeh, Sawsan; Dimand, Ana‐Maria

doi:10.1080/01900692.2019.1644654

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“…Supply chain management (SCM) is an administrative function, in which public financial resources are used to obtain goods, works and services to meet the needs of citizens (Manzini et al, 2019, p. 118;Rasheli, 2016). It is a core realm of public administration practice, used by public officials to address public problems of the administrative state (Trammell et al, 2019). Theoretically, SCM is based on the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm (Rhodes, 1997, p. 180).…”

Section: New Public Management (Npm) and The Contracting Statementioning

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Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Sibanda

Zindi

Maramura

2020

Cogent Business & Management

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Accountability requires supply chain management (SCM) public officials to account for, report on, explain and justify activities, and accept responsibility for municipal financial expenditure outcomes. Regardless of having SCM systems in place, efficiency in terms of procuring, tendering and sourcing goods and services in South African municipalities remains problematic. A key contributory factor to regressions in local government audit outcomes is the constant failure to develop, implement and monitor effective SCM systems, oversight, internal controls and financial reporting processes. With recurring instances of fruitless, irregular and wasteful expenditure, compliance with SCM policies, regulations and legislative frameworks needs solidification. When effectively implemented, control and oversight measures reduce waste, eradicates ethical malfeasance and promotes, integrity, transparency and accountability. The purpose of this article is to determine the SCM, risk factors that threaten accountability and how they can be mitigated in a typical South African Metropolitan Municipality.

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Section: New Public Management (Npm) and The Contracting Statementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Supply Chain Management (SCM) is critical for obtaining and delivering goods, services and infrastructural works to meet the needs of citizens and is a core realm of public administration practice (Rasheli, 2016;Trammell et al, 2019). South African municipalities use supply chains to procure goods, services and works for the public good.…”

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Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Sibanda

Zindi

Maramura

2020

Cogent Business & Management

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“…We also conjecture that we have now entered, with the publication of this review article as well as Trammell et al's (2020), into a third phase which involves legitimizing PP research as a specific subfield of public administration research. This third phase is happening simultaneously to a practical legitimization effort, through which practitioners are looking for recognition and during which a differentiated set of skills is being identified in the hope of making PP a recognized profession (McCue et al 2020).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Contrary to Trammell et al (2020), who looked only at public administration journals, one of our objectives was to see in which fields PP research was published. Therefore, we did not limit our search to specific journals, but instead used a longer list of more specific keywords to capture articles in many different journals.…”

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Recent research on public procurement: Should it become a subfield of public administration?

Hudon¹,

Dumas²,

Garzón³

2021

Can Public Adm

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This article presents a descriptive review of public procurement research conducted between 2010 and 2018 based on the coding of a sample of 743 relevant articles. We use the results to build a case for making public procurement a subfield of public administration research. We first present a systematic framework for studying public procurement that lays the ground for the coding strategy. Second, we outline the scope and method of the research, and then describe our findings regarding the most important topics, journals and authors in the recent literature on public procurement. Finally, we suggest how to improve the visibility and relevance of public procurement research in public administration journals.

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“…Because public procurement operates in the public domain, delimiting a PPBOK includes numerous political issues that raise both procedural and operational questions (Johnson et al, 2003; Roman, 2014). After recently conducting a literature review, Trammell et al (2020: 665) concluded that in “order to further establish the legitimacy of public procurement as a subfield of public management, the field of public procurement needs to work on its disciplinary credibility.” Furthermore, there are additional questions surrounding the extent to which this subfield of public administration is specialized enough to be considered autonomous (Prier et al, 2013; Roman, 2014). In other words, it is still debated whether public procurement itself is sufficiently distinctive from other subfields of public administration to justify a unique BOK.…”

Section: Situating Public Sector Procurement In a Bokmentioning

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Establishing the foundational elements of a public procurement body of knowledge

McCue

Prier

Steinfeld

2018

Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation

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Public procurement scholars have been striving to identify technical and behavioral competencies to drive toward professionalization. However, there is no vetted body of knowledge that practitioners and scholars can use to establish roles and responsibilities. This empirical study outlines a logical process to identify the foundational elements of the body of knowledge, specifically technical competencies, serving as the building blocks for advancement toward a recognized profession. Findings suggest that 87 job tasks can be classified under 6 job domains that contain many of the components and conceptual constructs for the field of public procurement. These domains can improve understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary in public administration.

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A Review of Public Administration Research: Where Does Public Procurement Fit In?

Cited by 42 publications

References 24 publications

Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Recent research on public procurement: Should it become a subfield of public administration?

Establishing the foundational elements of a public procurement body of knowledge

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