Implementation of sustainable public procurement in local governments: a measurement approach
| Autor: | Nicole Darnall, Stuart Bretschneider, Justin M. Stritch, Lily Hsueh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Government
Public Administration Conceptualization Public economics 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Sustainable procurement Management Monitoring Policy and Law 0506 political science Procurement Order (exchange) Local government 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Hierarchical control system Business Composite index 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Public Sector Management. 33:697-712 |
| ISSN: | 0951-3558 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ijpsm-09-2019-0233 |
| Popis: | PurposeAssessing and measuring the extent of organization-level policy implementation has received little scholarly attention, especially in the areas of local governments' procurement and environmental protection. To rectify the paucity of research in this area, this paper adopts Leonard-Barton's (1988) conceptualization of the misalignment between the (policy) innovation and the organization and draws on an original survey of local government finance, environment and public works departments in a representative sample of US cities with at least 25,000 residents to develop a strategy for measuring the extent of the implementation of a sustainable procurement policy (SPP) in local governments.Design/methodology/approachThe authors demonstrate through the construction of a composite index that in order for a SPP to be fully implemented, standards and rules, routines and decision-making criteria need to exist to reconcile any technical, infrastructural and decision-making misalignments between the new policy and an organization's pre-existing norms and routines.FindingsThe authors empirically assess and demonstrate that the paper's proposed composite measure of policy implementation is robust to multiple specifications and measurement reliability and construct validity tests.Originality/valueWhereas the existing literature from political science and policy science has tended to focus on higher levels of implementation in government through a complex hierarchical system, this paper underscores the importance of the policy implementation at the organizational level. Moreover, the authors contribute methodologically by our development of a strategy to measure the extent of the implementation of a SPP by local governments. |
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