Abstract
The seven essays in this volume address different issues related to green and innovation procurement as well as more general challenges in public procurement. These studies address both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems. The evidence that they present covers a broad spectrum of countries including Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and several African countries. Reflecting the different expertise of the authors, the studies draw from the Economics, Engineering, Law and Organization approaches to public procurement and use both theoretical and empirical methods.
The essays by Cesarotti et al. and by Grandia et al. have undergone edits and are not the original papers as were published in the Rivista di Politica Economica. This issue of Rivista di Politica Economica publishes some of the studies presented at the panel «Public Procurement’s Place in the World: The Charge towards Sustainability and Innovation» held at the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 10–12, 2013.
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Decarolis, F., Frey, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Decarolis, F., Frey, M. (eds) Public Procurement’s Place in the World. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430649_1
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