2020
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2020.1795217
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Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people

Abstract: Governments of highly developed western nations with colonised Indigenous populations such as Australia, Canada and South Africa are increasingly turning to social procurement policies in an attempt to solve social inequities between Indigenous people and other citizens. They seek to use policies and funds attached to infrastructure development and construction to encourage private sector companies to provide training, employment and business opportunities for Indigenous people in the communities in which cons… Show more

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“…The findings suggest that this could be done by familiarising staff recruited because of new social procurement policies with company routines and creating a workplace that encourages commitment to work, training, and employee development, as well as engagement with local communities. Indeed, the findings support recent work that argues creating social value requires a holistic approach to employment that supports the ways of knowing, being, and doing of the people intended to benefit from social procurement practices [33].…”
Section: Creating Social Value Through Construction Procurementsupporting
confidence: 78%
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“…The findings suggest that this could be done by familiarising staff recruited because of new social procurement policies with company routines and creating a workplace that encourages commitment to work, training, and employee development, as well as engagement with local communities. Indeed, the findings support recent work that argues creating social value requires a holistic approach to employment that supports the ways of knowing, being, and doing of the people intended to benefit from social procurement practices [33].…”
Section: Creating Social Value Through Construction Procurementsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Despite the growing importance of communicating the social value that construction creates, its subjective nature has caused difficulties in measuring and reporting it to clients and governments. This is especially relevant in the context of emerging construction social procurement requirements which require firms to create social value by providing employment opportunities for targeted groups such as Indigenous peoples who come from different cultures which see value differently [33]. In addition, social outcomes of construction procurement are often intangible [34], which presents difficulties for construction clients seeking to evaluate the social value that their procurement creates.…”
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“…The effectiveness of social procurement policy has, to the best of our knowledge and as noted by Denny-Smith et al [2020], not yet been studied. 3 Logically, the arguments mentioned in the previous paragraph can be transposed from the case of green to the case of social purchasing.…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 98%
“…This complexity and uncertainty in relation to the actual process of preparing for, awarding, and then monitoring a tender, suggests that there is still a long way to go to achieve the intent of the new THEORETICAL RESEARCH RESEARCH BRIEF procurement rules. From an Indigenous perspective, Australian research suggests that Indigenous procurement frameworks are still rare (Denny-Smith et al, 2020). Indigenous cultural knowledge and values are not necessarily transferable between indigenous groups suggesting there is no one procurement approach at the organisational level.…”
Section: Ma ¯Ori Values and Procurement Decision-makingmentioning
confidence: 99%