Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how public procurement can be strategic.
Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted …

Background The Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region has notably been in the limelight of
infrastructural deficit discussions over the decades. Although the region's infrastructural …

Paper aims This study aims to identify the key aspects of procurement in the Project
Management context and their relation to project success. Particularly, the effects of …

This study investigates the relationship between regulatory policies governing public
procurement and participation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs), using a large …

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 …

This paper contributes to the literature on the macroeconomic implications of corruption by
investigating its impact on public debt. Using a panel of OECD countries over the period …

In this paper, we study the short‐run evolution of political trust during the recent covid‐19
pandemic using survey data for a sample of young individuals living in Germany, France …

Focusing on the idea that a different allocation of bargaining power between the public
official and the private agent can explain the emergence of two types of corruption, this …

Delays in contractor selection are widespread and often costly in public procurement. This
paper is the first thorough empirical examination of a common view held by practitioners and …

Corruption is thought to affect developed economies to a greater degree than develo**
countries. However, given our limited capacity to detect corruption, it may simply be harder …