Abstract:The paper aims to evaluate the state of the literature on public procurement through examination of the works published in the Journal of Public Procurement from 2001 to 2014. 231 research outputs were collected and analyzed (with regard to, e.g., the background theory used, research method, and content of the papers), providing a overview of prior research topics and findings and identifying main gaps in the existing literature. This type of study is unique, as a broad literature review related to public proc… Show more
“…In terms of academic research, public procurement has not received much attention and lags behind the private sector (Patrucco et al, 2017). However, this is beginning to change as the academic community's interest in public sector management intensifies and public procurement is starting to have a significant impact on local and global economies (Patrucco et al, 2017).…”
Section: Us Procurement Challenges Resulting From Covid-19mentioning
This article discusses U.S. government’s procurement of medical supplies and equipment during COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges posed by COVID-19 to U.S procurement system. The article also examines how the U.S. government, the private sector, and nonprofit organizations are working together to address procurement challenges. This article notes that the global pandemic has drained the strategic national stockpile of medical supplies and equipment and that the United States is struggling to meet the demand of these critical resources. The good news is that the U.S. government is partnering with the private sector to ramp-up the much-needed supply. This article underscores the need for the U.S. government to continue to look for efficient and productive ways to procure necessary medical supplies and equipment that are essential for health care professionals and those affected by the COVID-19. This article offers some recommendations to improve U.S. procurement system and outlines an agenda for future research.
“…In terms of academic research, public procurement has not received much attention and lags behind the private sector (Patrucco et al, 2017). However, this is beginning to change as the academic community's interest in public sector management intensifies and public procurement is starting to have a significant impact on local and global economies (Patrucco et al, 2017).…”
Section: Us Procurement Challenges Resulting From Covid-19mentioning
This article discusses U.S. government’s procurement of medical supplies and equipment during COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges posed by COVID-19 to U.S procurement system. The article also examines how the U.S. government, the private sector, and nonprofit organizations are working together to address procurement challenges. This article notes that the global pandemic has drained the strategic national stockpile of medical supplies and equipment and that the United States is struggling to meet the demand of these critical resources. The good news is that the U.S. government is partnering with the private sector to ramp-up the much-needed supply. This article underscores the need for the U.S. government to continue to look for efficient and productive ways to procure necessary medical supplies and equipment that are essential for health care professionals and those affected by the COVID-19. This article offers some recommendations to improve U.S. procurement system and outlines an agenda for future research.
“…The GPP mechanism is the core of the procurement system in public organizations, because its operations are the chief drivers of final performance, reinforcing or impeding policy-level decisions [68]. Path dependency and bounded rationality may clarify the expansion of public procurement: Strategy alteration brings about a revision of policy mechanisms and approaches, while the chief objectives remain unmodified.…”
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.
“…Content analysis (Patrucco, Luzzini, & Ronchi, ) is the research methodology applied in this study of an investigation report concerned with suspicion of white‐collar crime in public procurement (Nesti, ). Content analysis is a procedure that identifies specific characteristics within texts attempting to make valid inferences (McClelland, Liang, & Barker, : 1259): Content analysis assumes that language reflects how people understand their surroundings and reflects their cognitive processes.…”
Business and public organisations hire fraud examiners to conduct private investigations when there is suspicion of misconduct or financial crime. Fraud examiners carry out their investigation based on a mandate. Often, individuals in the organisation are suspects. The blame game hypothesis is concerned with factors that cause blame attribution to some individuals but not to others. In this case study, only executives were blamed who had not disclosed corruption information to a major shareholder and to the chief executive officer.
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