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Practitioners' learning about healthcare supply chain management in the COVID-19 pandemic: a public procurement perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2021
PurposeThe procurement and supply of crucial healthcare products in the early stages of the COVID-19 emergency were chaotic. To prepare for future crises, we must be able to describe what went wrong, and why, and map out ways to build agility and ...
C. Harland   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement

open access: yesGovernance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 2021
This article traces the organization of corruption in public procurement, by theoretically and empirically assessing the contribution of extra-legal governance organizations (EGO) to supporting it.
Mihály Fazekas, S. Sberna, A. Vannucci
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Public Procurement Process Design and Small and Medium Enterprises Access to Contracts in Uganda [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Supply and Operations Management, 2017
Small and Medium Enterprises are often excluded from public procurement contracts due to several factors. We need effective public procurement policies, systems and personnel to ensure that the opportunities are scaled up rapidly, transparently and ...
Peter Obanda
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Sustainability within Public Procurement of Food: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Public procurement has been recognized as a tool to promote more sustainable production and consumption practices. As such, an increasing body of literature has become available in recent years focusing on the sustainable public procurement of food. This
Elvira Molin   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Organizing innovation contests for public procurement of innovation – a case study of smart city hackathons in Tampere, Finland

open access: yesEuropean Planning Studies, 2021
Public procurement of innovation is a key policy instrument for improving the quality of public services and achieving wider benefits for society. Recently, innovation contests have re-emerged as a means to procure innovative new solutions.
Matti Pihlajamaa, Maria Merisalo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Intellectual Structure of Social and Sustainable Public Procurement Research: A Co-Citation Analysis

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Public procurement has recently taken into account social and sustainable factors, increasing academic literature in this field. The aim of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of social and sustainable public procurement research by means of ...
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transposition of the EU Public Procurement Directives 2014 in Austria [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Public Procurement Markets, 2018
The EU public procurement directives 2014 further advance the European Commission’s ambitions to regulate most public procurement at the EU-wide level.
Bernt Elsner, Ruth Bittner
doaj   +1 more source

Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Organized Crime (2023), 2023
In recent years, the analysis of economic crime and corruption in procurement has benefited from integrative studies that acknowledge the interconnected nature of the procurement ecosystem. Following this line of research, we present a networks approach for the analysis of shell-companies operations in procurement that makes use of contracting and ...
arxiv   +1 more source

ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITORING IN THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

open access: yesPublic Policy and Administration, 2021
Taking into account the growing imbalance in the field of public procurement management towards the "shadow economy", corruption manifestations, we consider it appropriate to study the impact of anti-corruption monitoring tools on the effectiveness of ...
Gulsara Junusbekova, Zhaslan Khamitov
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign participation in federal biddings: A quantitative approach using the procurement panel [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Do Servi\c{c}o P\'ublico, 72(4), 779-802,2021, 2023
The bidding is the Public Administration's administrative process and other designated persons by law to select the best proposal, through objective and impersonal criteria, for contracting services and purchasing goods. In times of globalization, it is common for companies seeking to expand their business by participating in biddings.
arxiv   +1 more source

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