Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 24 Issue 1

The perks of being an attractive public customer

David Fridner

In industrial buyer–supplier relationships, being an attractive customer has been found to result in superior supplier performance. However, there is a limited understanding of…

Restricting freedom of contract – the EU foreign subsidies regulation and its consequences for public procurement

Michał Kania, Marta Andhov

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the recently enacted Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 14, 2022, on foreign subsidies…

Conceptualising a chameleon: social enterprise as a public provider

Sophie Hunt, Dag Håkon Haneberg, Luitzen de Boer

This paper aims to make sense of the social enterprise in a frame of social procurement and conceptualise it as a provider of public welfare based on bibliometric material…

Public procurement initiatives during the Covid-19 pandemic and lessons learned: the case study of Greece

Georgios Koligiannis, Maria Drakaki, Panagiotis Tzionas

This paper aims to highlight how the Greek State tried to improve public procurement processes during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and propose measures that could be…

Green Public Procurement in open access and traditional journals: a comparative bibliometric analysis

Federico Galán-Valdivieso, Juana Alonso-Cañadas, Laura Saraite-Sariene, Carmen Caba-Perez

Green Public Procurement (GPP) has recently gained attention in the academic and policy arenas since climate change has uncovered the need to be addressed by both private…

Dynamic capabilities view on value creation in public procurement

Elina Karttunen, Aki Jääskeläinen, Iryna Malacina, Katrina Lintukangas, Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen, Frederik G.S. Vos

This study aims to build on the dynamic capability view by examining dynamic capabilities associated with public value in public procurement.