Barriers to sustainable procurement in the Nigerian construction industry: an exploratory factor analysis

Ogunsanya, Oluwabukunmi A.; Aigbavboa, Clinton; Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku; Edwards, David John

doi:10.1080/15623599.2019.1658697

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“…This essentially indicates that if there is an increase in unethical practices by OHS inspectors, then the OHS institutions will continue to lack innovative strategies to enforce compliance with OHS regulations, and vice versa. This relationship reinforces the position of many researchers that unethical practices such as corruption lowers innovation within an industry (Ogunsanya, et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Secondly, the years of industry experience showed a strong negative correlation with CHA7-unethical practices by OHS inspectors. This result reinforces the belief that if people perceive that a behaviour is widespread and that there is a form of approval of the problem behaviour, they are more likely to accept such a behaviour as normal (Ogunsanya, et al, 2019). Therefore, considering that years of industry experience enables one to appreciate the norms in the industry, it could be reasoned that the higher the industry experience, the more one is likely to consider a practice as normal.…”

Section: Correlation Analysis and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

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Challenges for Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in the Construction Industry in Ghana

Boadu

Wang

Sunindijo

2021

CEB

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Many previous studies have reported that the occupational health and safety (OHS) enforcement is poor in developing countries, however these studies have mainly focused on the broader enforcement problems and not fully considered the challenges confronting the institutions responsible for enforcing OHS standards at workplaces. In this study, twelve potential challenges were identified from an extensive literature review, then an empirical investigation was carried out via a questionnaire survey from OHS inspectors and professionals in the Ghanaian construction industry. The twelve challenges were confirmed and ranked. Also, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and correlation were used to determine the statistical significance of the responses and the relationships between the challenges. Based on these findings, this study provides practical strategies for government, OHS inspectors and other professionals within the construction industry to improve the OHS enforcement. The research findings can also be adopted as a basis to assess challenges confronting OHS institutions in other developing countries.

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Section: Correlation Analysis and Discussionsupporting

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Challenges for Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in the Construction Industry in Ghana

Boadu

Wang

Sunindijo

2021

CEB

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“…Often, particularly in developing countries such as Malaysia, Ghana and Nigeria, legal sustainable frameworks on sustainable procurement are not fulfilled. Lack of enforcement has proved to be a common cause of unsustainable infrastructure outcomes [41][42][43].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Long-term sustainable benefits are not attractive to decision-making politicians. Often, they prefer "quick results" because their short-term political interests are incompatible with long-term benefits that sustainable infrastructure offers [31,39,[41][42][43]49,50]. Besides, sustainable options are time-consuming and involve commitment that developers are not willing to take [16,41,42].…”

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Sustainable Public Procurement and Human Rights: Barriers to Deliver on Socially Sustainable Road Infrastructure Projects in Mexico

Treviño-Lozano

2021

Sustainability

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Public procurement involves a process through which the public sector buys goods, services and works from private suppliers to accomplish its functions, including road infrastructure projects. Sustainability, both within the procurement process and the infrastructure outcome, comprises economic, environmental and social dimensions. Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) is acknowledged as a core dimension of sustainable development goal 12 (SDG12) on sustainable consumption by States and production by businesses, and as a State-business nexus within Pilar I of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Clearly, SPP delivering sustainable infrastructure involves broad positive effects and benefits for involved stakeholders and leveraging power over business suppliers to include social sustainable criteria within the procurement process is in the State’s hands. However, SPP has been little implemented in developing States such as Mexico resulting in unsustainable infrastructure outcomes. This article explores, through two case studies, the barriers of socially sustainable public procurement of road infrastructure developed by businesses contracted by the State in Mexico. By identifying such barriers, the Mexican State could be able to implement measures to tackle them and deliver on social sustainable infrastructure aligned with its commitments on sustainable development goals and its international obligations on human rights.

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“…Whereas some empirical research [33], [71] concentrated on application expansion for sustainable procurement, fewer [53], [55] looked primarily at the deployment and cost-effectiveness of e-procurement uptake. Also, part of the research investigating SPP discussed the objectives and barriers/challenges of sustainable procurement [72], [73] while [74] looked at the views of corporate buyers on the effect of e-procurement systems on knowledge management and logistic fulfillment of quality. Review findings in both sustainable procurement and Eprocurement [31], [75], [76] reviewed scientific developments trends and issues in the literature for E-procurement and sustainable procurement separately.…”

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A Framework of E-Procurement Technology for Sustainable Procurement in ISO 14001 Certified Firms in Malaysia

Singh¹,

Ismail²,

Wei³

et al. 2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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With the current emerging development pattern in Malaysia, E-Government has been unveiled by the Malaysian Government to be one of the multimedia super corridor flagship applications to implement digital technology to improve government operations. Eprocurement was originally utilized by businesses to minimize turnaround times and prices, but recently it was often used as a platform for sustainable procurement. However, there have been few attempts to investigate E-procurement technology in Malaysia concerning sustainable procurement. Also, there is no consistent and reliable framework of Eprocurement technology for sustainable procurement practices. The focal area of this research is ISO 14001 accredited firms in Malaysia, the population of these organizations is 55, sample size (N)=162 respondents including procurement managers, executives and staff which are involved directly or indirectly in the process of procuring products and services. This study is conceptual and aims to explore how the adoption of E-procurement technologies influence sustainable procurement practices within ISO 14001 accredited firms in Malaysia.

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Barriers to sustainable procurement in the Nigerian construction industry: an exploratory factor analysis

Cited by 64 publications

References 18 publications

Challenges for Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in the Construction Industry in Ghana

Challenges for Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in the Construction Industry in Ghana

Sustainable Public Procurement and Human Rights: Barriers to Deliver on Socially Sustainable Road Infrastructure Projects in Mexico

A Framework of E-Procurement Technology for Sustainable Procurement in ISO 14001 Certified Firms in Malaysia

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