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Legacy Procurement Practices Shape How U.S. Cities Govern AI: Understanding Government Employees' Practices, Challenges, and Needs [PDF]

open access: yes
Most AI tools adopted by governments are not developed internally, but instead are acquired from third-party vendors in a process called public procurement. In this paper, we conduct the first empirical study of how United States cities' procurement practices shape critical decisions surrounding public sector AI.
arxiv   +1 more source

Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement

open access: yesBusiness Process Management Journal, 2020
PurposeAlthough small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play major roles in most economies in terms of job creation, innovation and contribution to national income, they are often underrepresented in public procurement markets.
Temidayo O. Akenroye   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are veterinary drug maximum residue limits protectionist? International evidence

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze the distribution of maximum residue limits (MRLs) on veterinary drugs used in animal production and aquaculture in a global context of food consumption and trade. We compare MRLs by drug‐product pairs for a large set of countries, commodities, and drugs.
Akinbode Okunola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boosting environmental management: The mediating role of Industry 4.0 between environmental assets and economic and social firm performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 753-768, January 2023., 2023
Abstract The adoption of new innovative ecosystems linked to Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in industrial firms has created new opportunities for performance. In this study, we investigate whether I4.0 can reinforce environmental asset management in achieving firm economic and social performance. We intend to contrast the existence of I4.0‐based reward mechanisms
Joan Torrent‐Sellens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation and standardization as drivers of companies’ success in public procurement: an empirical analysis

open access: yesJournal of Technology Transfer, 2020
There is a significant potential to improve the benefits from public procurement through a better understanding of drivers in company success at the micro-level, an area that has received little study to date.
K. Blind, Jakob Pohlisch, Anne Rainville
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Incorporating economic multipliers in a bid adjustment algorithm for public food procurement decision making

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We present an adjusted bid price mechanism that incorporates economic multiplier effects in public food procurement decision making. Under Input–Output model assumptions, the algorithm estimates enhanced tax revenues to state governments through multiplier effects associated with in‐state supplier purchasing.
Todd M. Schmit, Xiaoyan Liu
wiley   +1 more source

What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in antidiabetic drug use and expenditure in public hospitals in Northwest China, 2012-21: a case study of Gansu Province

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research
Background Since the twenty-first century, the prevalence of diabetes has risen globally year by year. In Gansu Province, an economically underdeveloped province in northwest China, the cost of drugs for diabetes patients accounted for one-third of their
Wenxuan Cao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Problems of In-House Procurement in Lithuanian Public Procurement

open access: yesACTA PROSPERITATIS, 2023
Abstract Although the in-house procurement, as an exception to public procurement process, have existed in Lithuanian law for more than a decade and the European Union has expressed a clear positive position on the issue by legalize it in international level with Directive 2014/24/EU, but this legal institute still is not analysed enough
openaire   +2 more sources

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