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The Role of Intermediaries in Social Innovation: The Case of Social Procurement in Australia

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2020
Social procurement is receiving renewed attention in new public governance regimes that seek to increase social value by stimulating markets for social enterprises and other social benefit providers.
Jo Barraket
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Why people commit public procurement fraud? The fraud diamond view

Journal of Public Procurement, 2019
PurposeThis paper aims to discuss the factors that cause individuals to commit fraud, especially in the public procurement context. All this time, an empirical review of public procurement fraud has only focused on the macro and micro level, as well as ...
N. W. Rustiarini   +3 more
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Procurement planning as a strategic tool for public procurement effectiveness: Experience from selected public procuring entities in Dodoma city, Tanzania

Journal of Public Procurement, 2020
Purpose The significance of the public procurement function is on the survival and development of procuring entities and that of a nation at large.
I. A. Changalima   +2 more
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A Review of Public Administration Research: Where Does Public Procurement Fit In?

International Journal of Public Administration, 2020
This study conducts a content analysis of public procurement research in top ranked public administration journals to identify prevalent procurement topics and where gaps exist.
E. Trammell   +2 more
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Emerging procurement technology: data analytics and cognitive analytics

, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the emerging landscape of procurement analytics. This paper focuses on the following questions: what are the current and future state of procurement analytics?; what changes in the procurement process will be ...
R. Handfield   +2 more
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Green procurement process model based on blockchain–IoT integrated architecture for a sustainable business

, 2019
Blockchain and IoT are recently developed technologies for the database creation and smooth functioning of supply chain activities. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the use of blockchain and IoT for green procurement activities. The integration of
S. Rane, S. Thakker
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Mechanism for Robust Procurements

2012
We model robust procurement as an optimization problem. We show that its decision version is NP-complete, and propose a backtracking algorithm with cuts that reduce the search-space to find the optimal solution. We then develop a mechanism that motivates agents to truthfully report their private information (i.e., truthful in dominant strategies ...
Zhang, Y., Verwer, S.E.
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Procurement Integrity

2020
Public procurement refers to the purchase of goods, services, and works which satisfies a public entity’s own needs. It represents a key governmental economic activity which accounts for a significant part of the national public expenditure. According to some estimations, around 10–15% of the gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on public procurement ...
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Procurement contracting strategies

2006
Quality and suppliers performance are essential for procurement. This Paper analyses these important issues from two perspectives. The first part deals with the topic of contracting. It describes the features of some common types of contracts that the buyer may choose according to the circumstances of the procurement.
Federico Dini   +8 more
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The Role of Procurement

2013
Public procurement is the area of public administration concerned with the acquisition by the government of goods, works and services from the market place. These include inputs required to carry out investment projects (e.g., school buildings, roads, ports, technology, etc.) and those for the everyday functioning of government services and operations (
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