Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 16 Issue 3

Overcoming the barriers to green procurement in the county: Interest groups and administrative professionalism

Christy Smith, Jessica Terman

Scholars and practitioners have come to understand the important role of local governments in the causes and effects of climate change. The literature has examined both the…

Symposium introduction

Robin A. Suryo, Khi V. Thai

Collusion between public procurers and suppliers in the context of japan’s public procurement: The role of the risks of “unsuccessful procurement”

Satoru Tanaka, Shuya Hayashi

This paper examines the economic forces which may lead to government-assisted or -facilitated bid-rigging (kansei-dango) in public procurement in Japan, and considers their…

Implementation of sustainable public procurement practices and policies: A sorting framework

Eric Prier, Edward Schwerin, Clifford P. McCue

In general, there are many disincentives standing in the way of promoting change in public procurement practices by government agencies. Because engaging in sustainable purchasing…

Elements of public procurement reform and their effect on the public sector in lac

Leslie Elizabeth Harper, Ana Cristina Calderon Ramirez, Jorge Enrique Muñoz Ayala

Between 2007 and 2013, public procurement systems in Latin America and the Caribbean underwent a critical reform process. However, not much is known about the elements of reform…

Compliance to acts, rules and regulations: Evidence from sub-saharan africa

Musa Mbago, Joseph M. Ntayi, Moses Muhwezi

The purpose of the study is to develop and test an integrated compliance model using constructs derived from the legitimacy, deterrence, institutional and stewardship theories. A…