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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 paper, a game-theory based model for government rescue dynamics is developed to study when and how government will rescue a distressed project and what impacts government's rescue behavior has on project procurement and management.
Abstract: Today, government is no longer considered the sole provider of public works or services. Public-private partnership (PPP) has been recognized as an important approach to solving problems for governments in providing infrastructure systems. However, the joint ownership or partnership in PPP complicates the administration of PPP projects. Too often, in PPP, many serious problems occur mainly because of bad administration policies. In particular, the fact that government may rescue a distressed project and renegotiate with the developer causes major problems in project procurement and management. This paper aims to study when and how government will rescue a distressed project and what impacts government's rescue behavior has on project procurement and management. A game-theory based model for government rescue dynamics is developed. Propositions, corollaries, and important policy implications are then derived from the model. This pilot study, the writer hopes, may provide theoretic foundations to policy makers for prescribing effective PPP procurement and management policies and for examining the quality of PPP policies. The study can also offer researchers a framework and a methodology to understand the behavioral dynamics of the parties in PPP.

127 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a knowledge-based decision support system for building projects and professionals has been proposed, which harnesses lessons learnt from past and present research and practice to help optimise such decisions.

127 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a multi-method research design was used in this study by combining both qualitative and quantitative research methods, including questionnaire surveys, review of documents, and semi-structured interviews, to review sustainable procurement practices in the Canadian construction industry.

127 citations

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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The UK government's innovation agenda is based on the innovation report "Competing in the global economy - the innovation challenge (Dec. 2003)". The report's key proposals relate to topics that are vital if the UK is to safeguard and deliver high quality jobs, have successful businesses, produce better products and services for customers in new environmentally friendly processes as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This paper describes the rationale of the UK government's innovation agenda. This is based on the innovation report "Competing in the global economy - the innovation challenge (Dec. 2003)". The report's key proposals are described in this article. These proposals relate to topics that are vital if the UK is to safeguard and deliver high quality jobs, have successful businesses, produce better products and services for customers, in new environmentally friendly processes. These include technology transfer, management and skills, regulation, and public procurement.

126 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,696
20223,449
20211,142
20201,363
20191,503
20181,423