In this paper, we review recent research on the impact of public procurement with a focus on
methods and data. The growing interest in mobilizing procurement for strategic purposes …

Public agencies feel the need to advance sustainability and use procurement as an
instrument to do so. Many studies focused on internal forces, explaining the limited success …

In the EU and especially in Germany, public procurement is bound to a tight legislation that
also sets and enforces strategic goals such as innovation or sustainability. The purpose of …

Some US local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability
goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives …

Background: Despite the fact that medical equipment is critical for providing good health
services and also incurs significant expenditures for the health system, little is known about …

Cities in the USA are facing the impacts of climate change and socio-economic disparities
on a daily basis. In response, local governments are leading other public and even private …

This paper develops and tests a model for explaining small and medium-size enterprise
(SME) participation and success in public procurement. The model is informed by a …

Complex project networks confront project actors, with value pluralism originating from a
plethora of competing organizational and institutional systems related to the project …

This study investigates the effects of procurement tools to support small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) in public contracts by analysing contract awards for public works …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate disastrous failures in high-value, high-risk IT
procurement among US public agencies. The goal is to understand the cause of the failures …