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Strategies in Public Procurement: Is There a Deficit?

Literature Analysis and First Empirical Findings

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Logistics Management

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Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to explore the strategic nature of a current legislative initiative on supranational (European Union) level, which suggests the reform of public procurement law to better support joint political objectives. It represents one stage of an on-going research initiative aimed at providing a framework for a systematic understanding of the linkages between public policy making and public procurement strategies. Design/methodology/approach-Articles published between 2002 and 2012 in ten selected journals from supply management and public administration journals are analyzed and classified using an analytical framework for public supply strategies. Findings—The results show that most of the literature on public procurement strategies relates to the strategy content of legal, procedural or macro-economic (environmental) dimensions of the strategy framework. Largely undiscovered is the strategy content on a category level and the linkto other functional strategies. Additionally the strategy process, the making of policies and public procurement strategies, although addressed in literature, are still hardly explained. Implications—From the analytical framework, propositions for future research are presented through a research roadmap for public procurement strategies. Originality/value—By distinguishing several dimensions of public procurement strategies, the paper provides a framework for future research to enhance knowledge related to public procurement strategies and to develop a better alignment of political, legal, and economic initiatives of a public procurement reform.

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  1. Research Center for Law and Management of Public Procurement, Bundeswehr University Munich, 85577, Neubiberg, Germany

    Michael Eßig, Markus Amann & Andreas H. Glas

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  2. ISL - Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Hans-Dietrich Haasis

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Eßig, M., Amann, M., Glas, A.H. (2015). Strategies in Public Procurement: Is There a Deficit?. In: Dethloff, J., Haasis, HD., Kopfer, H., Kotzab, H., Schönberger, J. (eds) Logistics Management. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13177-1_29

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