Background: Ethical challenges in public procurement are often addressed through compliance approaches that stress rule …. This study develops and empirically validates the Procurement Literacy Capability Theory (PLCT), which conceptualises … procurement literacy as a sequenced, interdependent set of capabilities that produce ethical readiness. Methods: Survey data were …

Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2:Government green procurement policy in China -- Chapter 3:Assessment of Green … Public Procurement (GPP) implementation within Indonesia’s forestry sector -- Chapter 4:Green Public Procurement in India … -- Chapter 5:Overcoming barriers and driving innovation in Green Public Procurement -- Chapter 6:Administrative corruption and …

This paper examines the effects of increased bureaucratic discretion in public procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic … for rent-seeking and inefficiency. Using contract-level procurement data from 2019 to 2021, we study how these regulatory …

experience demand shocks derived from a lottery-based assignment of public procurement contracts for construction services in …