Use of rules in decision-making in government outsourcing

Khan, Shahadat; Schroder, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.03.002

Cited by 11 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 45 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Khan andSchroder (2009), Lorentziadis (2010) Variable BIA indicates the relative proportion of biased decisions (e.g. due to a confl ict of interest, bribes and/or erroneous processing) as compared to fair, unbiased decisions.…”

Section: Bia Biases To Favor Some Off Ersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Khan and Schroder (2009) Procedural and decision rules that prescribe how the procurement process should proceed might be dispersed in several formal (as well as informal) sources. When this is the case, some of the sources might contradict each other (variable DIC increases) -enabling divergent interpretations of what is allowed (recommended) in the GT.…”

Section: Dic Contradictions In Rules Ie Level Of Inconsistenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…corruption -see Treisman, 2000; biases to favor some off ers, expert arbitrage -see Khan and Schroder, 2009; compliance to rules -see Edwards and Wolfe, 2005), which makes the development of generally applicable, i.e. multidimensional models diffi cult.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…qualitative data) which cannot be easily treated by conventional formal tools. For example Khan and Schroder (2009) studied several diffi cult to measure variables (such as the use of informal decision procedures, compliance to rules, contradictions in rules, and biases to favor some off ers) in the context of GTs. Their approach was mostly descriptive in nature, they employed interviews and semantic diff erential scales.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Decision making in goverment tenders: A formalized qualitative model

Veselý¹,

Dohnal²

2013

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

VESELÝ, Š., DOHNAL, M.: Decision making in goverment tenders: A formalized qualitative model. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2012, LX, No. 4, pp. 397-406 The paper presents a simple formalized qualitative model of government tenders (GTs). Qualitative models use just three values: Positive/Increasing, Zero/Constant and Negative/Decreasing. Such quantifi ers of trends are the least information intensive. Qualitative models can be useful, since GT evaluation o en includes such goals as e.g. effi ciency of public purchasing, and variables as e.g. availability of relevant information or subjectivity of judgment, that are diffi cult to quantify. Hence, a signifi cant fraction of available information about GTs is not of numerical nature, e.g. if availability of relevant information is decreasing then effi ciency of public purchasing is decreasing as well. Such equationless relations are studied in this paper. A qualitative model of the function F(Goals, Variables) is developed. The model has four goal functions, eight variables, and 39 equationless relations. The model is solved and seven solutions, i.e. scenarios are obtained. All qualitative states, including fi rst and second qualitative derivatives with respect to time, of all variables are specifi ed for each scenario. Any unsteady state behavior of the GT model is described by its transitional oriented graph. There are eight possible transitions among seven scenarios. No a priori knowledge of qualitative modeling is required on the reader's part. government tenders, decision making, multidimensional, scenarios, qualitative model

show abstract

Section: Bia Biases To Favor Some Off Ersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dic Contradictions In Rules Ie Level Of Inconsistenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Decision making in goverment tenders: A formalized qualitative model

Veselý¹,

Dohnal²

2013

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The most useful source of information on government procurement was probably Khan and Schroder (2009).…”

Section: Eppmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selection of scenarios in qualitative models: The case of a government tenders model

Veselý¹,

Dohnal²

2013

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

VESELÝ ŠTĚPÁN, DOHNAL MIRKO: Selection of scenarios in qualitative models: The case of a government tenders model. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 7, pp. 2923-2929 The task of this methodological paper is to clarify the process of selection of scenarios in qualitative models. Articles on qualitative modeling usually do not cover the topic of scenarios selection exhaustively, only the basic operations are (sometimes) described. This lack of detail might lead to confusion and overly simplifi ed understanding of the process of model development when new users meet with qualitative models. We outline the basic principle of consistency, i.e. that scenarios inconsistent with a given knowledge item entered into the qualitative model are discarded from the model. With help of this principle, the vast set of all "imaginable" scenarios (27 12 in our case) can be reduced to just 7 scenarios in less than 40 steps. A manageable number of scenarios is important to enable interpretation and practical use, e.g. to evaluate concrete tasks and policies. For our demonstration we use our previously published model of government tenders. The current paper can help those who want to understand qualitative models and their development better, it is not restricted to the problem of qualitative modeling of government tenders. qualitative model, scenarios, consistency, model development, knowledge engineering

show abstract

Migrant Remittance Supported Micro-Enterprises in South Asia

Khan¹

2013

The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Use of rules in decision-making in government outsourcing

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

Decision making in goverment tenders: A formalized qualitative model

Decision making in goverment tenders: A formalized qualitative model

Selection of scenarios in qualitative models: The case of a government tenders model

Migrant Remittance Supported Micro-Enterprises in South Asia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About