Why do public sectors perform high-level green public procurement practice? A new insight with fsQCA approach

Ye, Meng; Ma, Yanlin; Liu, Junqi

doi:10.1080/09640568.2021.1978060

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“…This conclusion on the necessity of whole organization implementation aligns with studies from different geographical regions in both developed and developing countries. These studies point toward the importance of top management support [18,45] in the context of the United States and China, leadership in sustainability [19] in the context of the United Kingdom and environmental commitment "urging environmental awareness in every area of the business" in the context of Germany [17]. Various authors showed that the role of change agents seems to be crucial to realize this holistic implementation, such as Grandia (2015) [46] in the context of the Netherlands.…”

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Measuring the Effect of Circular Public Procurement on Government’s Environmental Impact

Dekker

Hauck

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Governments contribute to the transition toward a circular economy (CE) by using criteria in their procurement processes that trigger the supply of circular products and services, namely circular public procurement (CPP). CPP practices are emerging in Europe. However, the effect of CPP is not yet monitored and hence remains unclear. What is the efficacy of CPP in reducing the impacts of goods and services? Analyzing CPP efficacy is an important next step in exploring how to improve its application. This paper presents the results of an effect evaluation of CPP in the Netherlands, using a sample-based mixed-method approach in combination with life cycle assessment for analyzing CPP-induced reduced impacts on global warming and material use. Two thirds of the procurement tenders in which circular procurement criteria were applied in 2017 and 2018 did not result in reduced environmental impacts or reduced material use. One third, however, showed that, as well as how CPP can contribute to the transition toward a CE. The identified remaining challenges are (1) to apply criteria that are ambitious enough to challenge the market and (2) to keep attention on the circularity ambitions up during the implementation phase of the procurement process. Effect indicators are proposed to complement the current monitoring practices of CPP implementation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Effect of Circular Public Procurement on Government’s Environmental Impact

Dekker

Hauck

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…This tendency can also observed in public procurement procedures, as more and more literature deals with the rise of green public procurement and its obstacles (e.g. EDQUIST and ZABALA-ITURRIAGAGOITIA, 2020;RAINVILLE, 2021;ROSELL, 2021;YE et al , 2022). At the same time, some authors have already shown extremely forward-looking results: according to the study of ORSATTI et al (2020) a one percent increase in green procurement spending in the United States increased the number of green patents by about 0.05 percent.…”

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Green Innovation in Construction Industry and in Public Works Procurement in Hungary - Review

Boros

Kovács

2022

JCEGI

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The construction industry is an important industry that determines the national economy of almost every country. Due to its productivity, the number of people it employs, and the number of enterprises involved, it is also decisive for other industries. The facilities completed as a result of public works often outlast their dreamers by decades, so it is very important that the construction industry is open to the innovative development of its operations, products and elements that provide infrastructure for others. The basic hypothesis of our study is that although a rapid regeneration took place in the construction industry after the pandemic situation, which is also supported by the number of public procurement procedures for Hungarian public works, the proportion of procedures using innovative solutions is low, as is the case with sustainability aspects. We also assumed that the share of public procurement procedures integrating R&D results and innovation partnerships is low compared to domestic public procurement.

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“…Various theoretical perspectives have been advanced to elucidate how stakeholder pressures result in the divergent adoption patterns of green public procurement (GPP) across organizations. Widely employed theories encompass institutional theory, agency theory, stewardship theory, upper echelon theory, resource dependence theory, and opportunity theory (Ye et al 2022;Plaček et al 2023;Johnson and Klassen 2022;Rejeb et al 2023;Shadrina et al 2022;Polonsky et al 2022;Qazi and Appolloni 2022). Whereas institutional theory is concerned with the mechanisms of coercive, isomorphic, normative, and mimetic stakeholder pressures (Jacob Nsiah-Sarfo et al 2023;Aguilera et al 2007) multi-level theory of social change in organizations differentiates these pressures according to diverse levels-ranging from the organizational sphere to national and transnational dimensions.…”

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“…Whereas institutional theory is concerned with the mechanisms of coercive, isomorphic, normative, and mimetic stakeholder pressures (Jacob Nsiah-Sarfo et al 2023;Aguilera et al 2007) multi-level theory of social change in organizations differentiates these pressures according to diverse levels-ranging from the organizational sphere to national and transnational dimensions. Nevertheless, as noted by Ye et al (2022), most of these theories in isolation fall short of providing a comprehensive understanding of the variations in GPP implementation.…”

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Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

Plaček,

Rosell,

Valentinov

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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While scholarly research on green public procurement (GPP) keeps growing, until now it has paid little attention to museums that must make decisions about GPP implementation. This paper breaks new ground by exploring GPP implementation in the most visited European museums. The proposed conceptual framework allows a comparison and a mapping of museums’ GPP implementation levels while taking account of how these levels are related to the national GPP performance. Complementing this framework with the analysis of the up-to-date data from the Tender Electronic Daily database yields two central findings. First, museums that formalized their GPP policies in their strategic organizational documents exhibit higher levels of GPP implementation than other museums that have not done so. Second, the majority of the investigated museums follow national trends of GPP implementation, with examples of exceeding or falling below these trends being rare. The article is important for policy makers and practitioners as it highlights the importance of the factor of institutionalization of green procurement in individual organizations, which is crucial for successful implementation of green procurement.

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Why do public sectors perform high-level green public procurement practice? A new insight with fsQCA approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 106 publications

Measuring the Effect of Circular Public Procurement on Government’s Environmental Impact

Measuring the Effect of Circular Public Procurement on Government’s Environmental Impact

Green Innovation in Construction Industry and in Public Works Procurement in Hungary - Review

Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

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