Improving the green public procurement performance of Chinese local governments: From the perspective of officials’ knowledge

Liu, Junqi; Ben-shan, Shi; Xue, Jinjie; Wang, Qi

doi:10.1016/j.pursup.2018.05.002

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“…One of the core issues of GPP practice is to explore why and how public sectors can better implement GPP (Sönnichsen and Clement, 2020). Most existing studies focus on the internal factors that motivate organizations to better practice GPP (Grandia and Voncken, 2019), such as knowledge (Liu et al, 2019a;Testa et al, 2016), training (Aragão and Jabbour, 2017), top management support/transformational leadership (Walker and Brammer, 2016), larger organizations (Testa et al, 2012) and higher administrative levels (Liu et al, 2019b). However, obstacles to GPP (Delmonico et al, 2018;Walker et al, 2008), such as cost/budget issues (McMurray et al, 2014), priority conflicts (Brammer and Walker, 2011) and supplier acquisition issues (Dou et al, 2014), make it difficult for public sectors to rely on internal motivation to better implement GPP (Alhola et al, 2019).…”

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How external stakeholders drive the green public procurement practice? An organizational learning perspective

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Purpose This study aims to uncover the black box of the influence mechanism between external stakeholder drivers and green public procurement practice, and meanwhile to explore the moderating role of administrative level in this process. Green public procurement (GPP) has been widely implemented. Existing literature has found that external stakeholder drivers can affect public sectors' GPP practice, however, the definition of its connotation is still unclear, and how external stakeholders affect GPP practice has remained a black box. Design/methodology/approach After defining the major external stakeholders, this study develops a multiple mediation theoretical model using survey data from 142 Chinese local public sectors. It aims to uncover the black box of the influence mechanism between external stakeholder drivers and GPP practice and meanwhile explore the moderating effect of administrative levels in this process. Findings The results show that external stakeholder drivers have a positive relationship with GPP practices. The knowledge of GPP implementation policies and the knowledge of GPP benefits can both mediate this relationship. This study also finds that the administrative level of public sectors can positively moderate the mediating effect produced by the knowledge of GPP implementation policies and negatively moderate the mediation effect produced by the knowledge of GPP benefits. Social implications Local governments need to better encourage public sectors to implement GPP. Managers of public sectors need to pay attention to organizational learning to acquire relevant knowledge on GPP. Originality/value This study makes a theoretical contribution to a better understanding of the influence mechanism for GPP practice. This study also provides comparisons of GPP implementation policies between China and European Union.

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How external stakeholders drive the green public procurement practice? An organizational learning perspective

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“…GPP, a key environmental policy mechanism for sustainability [53], attempts to assimilate green guidelines into public tender as a tool to advance and stimulate production and use of sustainable goods and services [54]. With the purpose of enabling the implementation of environmental regulations in public procurement, the European Commission has expanded the GPP standards for diverse typologies of goods and services, chiefly demanding green labels as indication that the products or supplies are in agreement with the specified low-carbon features [55].…”

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Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

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Research has identified that there is a paucity of reviews covering green public procurement (GPP) in terms of environmentally responsible behavior and sustainability policy adoption. Using, comprehensively, the most recent (2017–2020) and relevant (Web of Science- and Scopus-indexed) empirical sources, our paper fills the gap in the literature by focusing on the main developing streams of research, that is: How GPP drives the circular economy; GPP of construction and building materials; environmental and supply chain management measures in GPP; the procurement of sustainable innovation; environmental policy objectives of GPP as regards energy, pollution, carbon footprint, and climate change; GPP as an environmental policy mechanism for production and use of sustainable goods and services; and GPP as an integral component of sustainable development and performance. Further investigations can explore hot topics related to the role of GPP in the automated algorithmic decision-making processes taking place in data-driven smart sustainable cities because the harnessing, among other things, of sensing and computing technologies, network connectivity systems, and the Cognitive Internet of Things will fulfill the incessant exigencies of public administration.

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“…Most of the extant research on GPP has been conducted in developed countries such as Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, The Netherlands, USA, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Germany, and Canada [15]. In terms of developing countries, apart from Latin America, there are studies in Africa [34], Ghana [35], India [36], Pakistan [37], South Africa [38], and Thailand [39]; however, most of them have been performed in China [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] and Nigeria [48][49][50].…”

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“…Finally, factors that have been relevant to predict GPP performance include knowledge of the regulatory requirements [42], information about different responsibilities in government departments and experience in developed countries; as well as the pressures, such as regulations, rewards, incentives, the relationship with non-governmental stakeholders [47], ethics [55], and the maturity of the program [41]. Interestingly, Wang et al [46], studying contracts in a municipality in China, found that price and time efficiency are negatively associated with GPP and intellectual efficiency is negatively associated with the size of the procurement.…”

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Municipal Green Purchasing in Mexico: Policy Adoption and Implementation Success

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In this paper, we seek to determine what factors drive the adoption of green purchasing among municipalities in Mexico and the success of their implementation. Given the lack of research and theory in the area, this study is exploratory in nature. We applied the green purchasing survey developed by Arizona State University to all municipalities in Mexico with a population of 25,000 or more inhabitants. Using the least absolute shrinkage and selector operator method (LASSO), we reduced the set of measures, which we then employed in a logistic regression to predict whether the municipality would adopt a green purchasing policy. We found that complementary environmental practices, department rules, and city-wide contracts to reduce purchasing costs have a positive and significant effect on the propensity to adopt green purchasing policies, but the time for routine low-cost purchases has a negative effect on green purchasing policy adoption. Then, using two-stage least squares, we developed a model of the factors leading to successful implementation of green purchasing. We found that complementary environmental policies, environmental practices, environmental program knowledge, and city-wide contracts to reduce purchasing costs are positively and significantly related to successful implementation. However, department resources and the time for routine low-cost purchase are significant, but negatively related.

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Improving the green public procurement performance of Chinese local governments: From the perspective of officials’ knowledge

Cited by 49 publications

References 63 publications

How external stakeholders drive the green public procurement practice? An organizational learning perspective

How external stakeholders drive the green public procurement practice? An organizational learning perspective

Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

Municipal Green Purchasing in Mexico: Policy Adoption and Implementation Success

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