The paper aims to evaluate the state of the literature on public procurement through
examination of the works published in the Journal of Public Procurement from 2001 to 2014 …

Increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance of public procurement (PP) has
become an ongoing concern for governments. Public administrations at different levels are …

Public procurement has struggled to fulfill its mission to create public value due to a narrow
interpretation of value emphasizing the costs of procured goods and services. A holistic view …

The success of purchasing and supply management (PSM) largely depends on PSM
professionals' skills levels. Past research assumed that one universal PSM professional type …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue and outline its major
themes and challenges, their relevance and the research opportunities the field presents …

The COVID‐19 crisis quickly drew attention to shortages of critical supplies in complex,
global healthcare, and food supply chains, despite emergency and pandemic plans existing …

Public procurement has been increasingly adopted as a demand-side policy instrument to
stimulate innovation, but empirical evidence on the effectiveness of public procurement …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of
purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009. The review provides a structured …

This article utilizes agency theory to explain maverick buying in governmental agencies, that
is, noncompliance to centrally negotiated frame agreements. Traditional agency theory …

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 …