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Government/business relations: an agency-theory perspective on the procurement of market research
International Journal of Procurement Management, 2011The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide a brief description and review of the agency theory literature in ultimately proposing that agency theory may provide a novel and potentially useful foundation for analysing (for researchers) and influencing (for managers) the nature of contractual relations between government departments that secure ...
Michel Rod
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Public sector e-procurement: a study of benefits from e-markets in the local government sector
International Journal of Services, Technology and Management, 2011Procuring goods and services through e-markets can have profound effects on organisations in terms of the benefits e-markets deliver to them. In the local government sector, the adoption and implementation of electronic government initiatives to increase the effectiveness of how public services are delivered and the need to address inefficiencies in ...
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Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China
Applied Economics LettersDezhu Ye
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Rating Government Procurement Markets
SSRN Electronic JournalWe develop a novel, scalable method for assessing the quality of public procurement systems using standard administrative data. Our approach compares the distribution of procurement opportunities to the distribution of contract awards across firms. We first derive a simple theoretical benchmark that relates the expected distribution of contract value ...
Deryugina, Tatyana +5 more
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Market planning for government procurement
Industrial Marketing Management, 1986Abstract Marketing can be profitable to governments. As for all marketing efforts, a knowledge of what, when, and why the government customer buys is mandatory to corporate success. These can be learned by studying the customer's planning, programming, and budgeting activities.
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Services Procurement under the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement: Whither Market Access? [PDF]
, 2010 This paper studies the government procurement of services from foreign suppliers by conducting a statistical analysis of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the paper examines whether the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) has led to greater market access for ...
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SME Access to Government Procurement Markets: Inhibitors to Change
The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review, 2005Targeted strategies to develop intellectual capital are critical to improve the access of SMEs to government procurement markets.
Demediuk, Peter, Breen, John P
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SME Participation in Government Procurement Markets
2017This chapter considers policy measures to increase the participation of SMEs in government procurement and their potential economic and social policy benefits. It considers the scale and importance of government procurement, and barriers to SME access to these markets.
Caroline Nicholas, Anna Caroline Müller
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2011
Introduction The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is on the cusp of a significant expansion in its membership. The accession of Chinese Taipei took effect on 15 July 2009. Currently, nine other WTO Members have applied for accession to the Agreement: Albania, Armenia, China, Georgia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Oman and Panama.
Robert D. Anderson, Kodjo Osei-Lah
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Introduction The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is on the cusp of a significant expansion in its membership. The accession of Chinese Taipei took effect on 15 July 2009. Currently, nine other WTO Members have applied for accession to the Agreement: Albania, Armenia, China, Georgia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Oman and Panama.
Robert D. Anderson, Kodjo Osei-Lah
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Competition and collusion in a government procurement auction market
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2002This paper tests the structure performance hypothesis by examining a highway construction industry in Florida. In the first-price sealed bid auction literature, there is little evidence on how many bidders are required for these markets to be competitive.
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