Background: This study aims to identify how and if strategic procurement 4.0 performance influences competitiveness under circular economy conditions. In this regard, to achieve the aim of the study, we examine the moderating and mediating effects of strategic procurement 4.0 performance. In...

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency might benefit from the availability of...

Background: the advent of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) innovations has revolutionized supply chain management through technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrated into procurement processes. Methods: this study addresses a critical knowledge gap by conducting...

Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement shifts provide an exogenous source of variation that we...

Background: The increasing Muslim population worldwide will increase the Islamic market share in the future. Thus, the higher demand for halal food has caused the food industry to pay attention to the quality control system for the ingredients used. This paper aims to review the previous...

This paper investigates the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance in the public sector. Furthermore, the paper examines the moderating role of contract management difficulty on the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance. Using...

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency might benefit from the availability of...

Background: There are opportunities to enrich procurement and supply management classes to be more international and to engage with industry more deeply. Methods: Using a design science method this paper develops a course design for teaching procurement that enriches existing approaches to...

How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms’ underlying...

Background: Sustainable procurement is about considering social and environmental factors alongside financial factors in making procurement decisions and purchasing goods and services that take into account the social, economic, and environmental impact that such purchasing has on people and...

Newly introduced price subsidy programs without physical procurement have resulted in an increased (vis-à-vis the subsidy programs with physical procurement) preponderance of deliberate quality degradation for certain crops by Indian farmers. The physical procurement of the crop from farmers...

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

This appendix to the paper Elliott, Golub, and Leduc (2022): “Supply Network Formation and Fragility” gives proofs omitted in the main text, as well as some auxiliary analyses and calculations.Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525459

Motivated by conversations with practitioners, this experimental paper considers (1) the production decisions (e.g., late stage Rejection, production by In-House Capacity, and production by Unauthorized Capacity) of a capacity constrained Supplier who faces a portfolio of different Buyer firms...

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine together four data sources on US federal R&D contracts, follow-on patented inventions, federal public workforce characteristics, and perception of their work environment. By...

This paper assesses the rules on urgent procurement of the European Union (EU) procurement Directives and Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It addresses urgent procurement in its broadest sense, covering both crisis events and other urgent...

C&I consumers account for more than 50% share of total power consumption in India. Studies show that corporate renewable procurement will play a critical role in supporting the country achieve its renewable and emission reduction targets. This has resulted in a sharp increase in corporate...

This piece reviews the past year’s developments in international public procurement in several parts, including: (I) the United Kingdom’s first steps in developing a post-Brexit procurement law (in a part prepared by Michael Bowsher KC, visiting professor at King’s College, London and a...

This Chapter continues unpacking the gatekeeping role assigned to the procurement function in the context of public sector digitalisation. After the analysis of procurement as a regulatory actor in https://ssrn.com/abstract=4351555, the focus is now put on the procedural and substantive...

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

Purchasing is one of the key managerial activities in every organization, its significance having been identified during the 19th century. According to Kasilingam (2012, p.57), the period shortly before the Second World War marked the discovery of the fact that a firm’s success was not so much...

In this study, we analyze the challenges faced by manufacturers in promoting sustainability throughout their supply chains when the supplier is capital-constrained, has private access to production cost information, and must choose between regular and sustainable production. We develop a dyadic...

Federal procurement has an important role to play in mitigating and adapting to climate change. The massive scale of the government’s purchasing power—more than $600 billion in Fiscal Year 2022—puts the federal government in an impactful position to both purchase and create markets for...