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Procurement
About: Procurement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25669 publications have been published within this topic receiving 334145 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a survey of more than 1,100 innovative firms in Germany found that public procurement and knowledge spillovers from universities propel innovation success equally. But the benefits of university knowledge apply uniformly to all firms.
268 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present firm level evidence on the motives of private sector firms for introducing clean innovations from the latest Flemish CIS eco-innovation survey, which confirms that firms are responsive to eco-policy demand interventions.
268 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors chart the advance in strategic purchasing, characterized by the strategic focus, strategic involvement of the purchasing function and the status and visibility of the professionals, into three stages, and show that firms at the nascent stage of strategic purchasing can achieve better supply integration, a second-order construct composed of four facets of relational, process, information and cross-organizational team integration.
264 citations
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31 Dec 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the UK construction sector context, focusing on the role of contract administrator and role of role of the contract administrator in contract termination and suspension and termination of contracts.
Abstract: 1. UK construction sector context 2. Roles and relationships 3. General contracting 4. Design-build 5. Construction management 6. Collaborative contracting 7. Risk allocation and procurement decisions 8. Contract choice 9. Tendering and contract formation 10. Liability in contract and tort 11. Contractor's obligations 12. Employer's obligations 13. Responsibility for design 14. Time 15. Payment 16. Contractors' delay and disruption costs 17. Insurance and bonds 18. Role of the contract administrator 19. Sub-contracts 20. Financial remedies for breach of contract 21. Defective buildings and subsequent owners 22. Suspension and termination of contracts 23. Non-adversarial dispute resolution 24. Adversarial dispute resolution
263 citations
TL;DR: A broad taxonomy of procurement policies and instruments that have emerged in OECD countries in response to perceived deficiencies and then compares these with the perceptions of firms using an analysis of a dedicated survey of 800 public sector suppliers in the UK as mentioned in this paper.
262 citations