Building procurement in a developing country: a comparison study between public and private sectors

Jaafar, Mastura; Radzi, Nurhidayah Mohd

doi:10.1504/ijpm.2012.048878

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“…Telgen et al (2007) observe that the demands on public procurement are greater and more varied than those on private sector procurement (p. 17). The significant variables differentiating procurement systems in the public and private sectors have been identified to be legal, risk, and operational factors ( Jaafar and Radzi, 2012). The objectives of the public sector and its procurement operations are wider than the singular objective of maximizing profit for a given company (Murray, 1999a;Larson, 2009), and it is in this way that devotion to the mission, vision, and values across the two sectors may diverge.…”

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Public procurement and the BLS: operationalizing occupational duties

Steinfeld

Prier

McCue

2015

International Journal of Public Sector Management

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Purpose – Procurement is a specific, yet dynamic area of work and study that is recognized as an occupation by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). However, there is growing literature that substantiates differences in theory and practice, between procurement practitioners in the private and public sectors. The purpose of this paper is to validate the procurement occupational duties identified by the BLS with actual job activities performed and managed by public sector practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a survey of public sector practitioners to obtain information with regards to occupational duties and job activities in public procurement, as compared to a BLS proxy for procurement. Findings – Public procurement practitioners complete the occupational duties identified by BLS, yet there is one occupational duty in public procurement that is absent from the BLS description for procurement. Practical implications – Empirical data and analysis identifies the potential for public procurement to be considered its own occupation separate from private sector procurement, providing a foundation for development, management, and professionalization of the field. Originality/value – The public procurement practitioners who completed the survey have a high degree of professional orientation based on certifications held and professional association membership, a foundation for generating applicatory results for studying the actual occupational duties in procurement. The specialized job activities performed and managed in perhaps the fastest growing occupation within public sector management are catalogued in this study.

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Public procurement and the BLS: operationalizing occupational duties

Steinfeld

Prier

McCue

2015

International Journal of Public Sector Management

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“…Based on the questionnaire survey done by Ting and Chin (2013), the most important selection criteria is the nature of work, which includes size, the level of complexity, type, and source of funding of the project. According to Jaafar and Radzi (2012), they concluded that the procurement system in Malaysia has not evolved greatly since the colonial British era. Many clients in the local industry prefer to choose procurement systems considered familiar, even though the criteria and purposes or every project are different.…”

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Industrialized Building System (IBS) Provision in Local and International Standard Form of Contracts

Fateh

Mohammad²

2018

JCDC

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Industrialized Building System (IBS) has been introduced for over 40 years in Malaysia, with well-documented benefits and strong support from the government. Unfortunately, the pace of IBS adaptation is still slow and below the government's target. Construction players are still facing various issues and challenges when adopting IBS, particularly on contractual and procurement aspects, thus, it contributes to the low adoption of IBS in Malaysia. As of to date, there is still the lack of provisions in Malaysian standard form of contract to suit the IBS construction approach. Therefore, this research will attempt to investigate and compare several local and international standard form of contracts to identify and highlight what international standard form of contracts have provisions to suit IBS construction approach. Literature review and documents analysis were used in the data collection exercise. The study revealed that there are six provisions that the local standard form of contract can enhance to suit the IBS construction approach. The findings will be useful to enhance the local standard form of contract to suit IBS construction approach, hence, able to accelerate the adoption of IBS construction in Malaysia.

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“…Steinfeld et al (2015) find that public sector procurement practitioners perform and manage the occupational duty of “establish/uphold mission, vision, and values”, while an occupational duty with similar or general relative scope is completely absent from the BLS description of procurement. The study’s findings relate the performance and management of establishing/upholding mission, vision and values to the social responsibility aspect of public administration, seemingly the defining characteristic that makes the field esoteric, at least in its contemporary form, from related practice in the private sector such as business administration (Dahl and Lindblom, 1953; Wamsley and Zald, 1973; Perry and Rainey, 1988; Nutt, 2005; Bowman and Thompson, 2013) and public procurement from private sector purchasing and supply management (Murray, 1999; Telgen et al , 2007; Larson, 2009; Jaafar and Radzi, 2012).…”

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Professionalism as social responsibility in procurement and administration

Steinfeld

McCue

Prier

2017

EBR

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Purpose The purpose of this empirical study is to identify the job tasks where decisions regarding social responsibility are likely to occur and assess the potential connections between social responsibility and professionalism. Design/methodology/approach A job study conducted by the Universal Public Procurement Certification Council (UPPCC) of 2,593 practitioners is used for data collection. Factor analysis is applied to a set of 75 procurement job tasks to determine the relationship between practitioners’ performance and management of job tasks and social responsibility variables. Findings The results suggest that there are specific job tasks performed and managed in both public and private sector procurement that share a unique relationship with social responsibility variables. Research limitations/implications The manuscript advances the research on professionalism in procurement and administration through empirically testing job tasks performed and managed by practitioners and identifying relationships between job tasks according to a professional orientation toward social responsibility. Practical implications The study shows that specific job tasks are performed and managed in procurement and administration with a social responsibility consideration. Social implications The technical nature of job tasks found to be related to social responsibility suggests a paradoxical view of the politics-administration dichotomy, and the notion that neutral tasks of both the public and private sectors are not void of a social function. Originality/value One attribute of professionalism in the literature, social responsibility, is operationalized through actual performance and management of job tasks by practitioners.

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Building procurement in a developing country: a comparison study between public and private sectors

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Public procurement and the BLS: operationalizing occupational duties

Public procurement and the BLS: operationalizing occupational duties

Industrialized Building System (IBS) Provision in Local and International Standard Form of Contracts

Professionalism as social responsibility in procurement and administration

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