An Empirical Evaluation Of The Potential Of Public E-Procurement To Reduce Corruption

Neupane, Arjun; Soar, Jeffrey; Vaidya, Kishor

doi:10.3127/ajis.v18i2.780

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“…As a result, more context-based research in different contexts is needed, to facilitate the identification of factors or irregularities that are identical in specific contexts and contribute to the development of effective strategies for extirpating specific irregularities in different contexts. Future studies can also explore the strategies needed to extirpate the prevailing irregularities (Neupane, Soar, & Vaidya, 2014;Nurmandi & Kim, 2015). On the other hand, a deeper exploration of the constructs developed in this study can be conducted to determine their relational attributes (i.e., how one construct affects the other).…”

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Assessing Procurement Irregularities in the Supply-Chain of Ghanaian Construction Projects: A Soft-Computing Approach

Owusu

Chan

Hosseini

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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This study examines procurement irregularities, as one of the most unexplored threats in the procurement process of construction projects. It also tests the suppositions associated with the contributions of irregularities to corruption in construction procurement. An expert survey is conducted with 62 construction-related practitioners selected via non-probabilistic sampling in the context of a Ghana, to assess the criticalities of the irregularities. Eighteen irregularities were identified within the context selected for this study. A soft computing technique known as the Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation (FSE) method is employed to examine the identified irregularities. Other relevant techniques including factor analyses, normalization, and descriptive tools are employed to factorize the identified irregularities and test the hypotheses. Out of the 18 irregularities, 11 were revealed to be critical. The findings reveal that the top three irregularities were: payments for uncompleted works, sourcing of proforma invoices from the same supplier and the lack of proper coordination among key departments. Moreover, four constructs were developed using the identified measurement items. They are administrative-specific, procedural, compliance and contract monitoring irregularities. Out of the four, the topmost critical construct turns out to be compliance irregularities. Theoretically, this study advances the scholarship of construction by shedding lights on the irregularities associated with the procurement processes of construction projects. It also contributes to an in-depth understanding of the noted irregularities. In practical terms, this study contributes to the procurement planning and policy-making process, it assists decision makers in putting in place measures to prevent or extirpate the likelihood of any of the irregularities’ occurrences.

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Assessing Procurement Irregularities in the Supply-Chain of Ghanaian Construction Projects: A Soft-Computing Approach

Owusu

Chan

Hosseini

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…Researchers describe many roles of public procurement. These include the role of inducing innovation, development and economic growth (e.g., Edler & Georghiou, 2007;Preuss, 2007;Uyarra et al, 2014), achieving environmental goals (e.g., Amann et al, 2014;Bof & Casella, 2015), and the reduction of public corruption (e.g., Neupane, Soar, & Vaidya, 2014).…”

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The Informing Needs of Procurement Officers in Israel

Bouhnik¹,

Giat²,

Zarruk³

2017

InSITE Conference

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Aim/PurposeTo develop and introduce a questionnaire that investigates the informing needs, information-seeking behavior, and supplier selection of procurement officers in Israel. The questionnaire's internal consistency reliability is given. Additionally, we describe the demographic description of the procurement officers in Israel. Background Procurement science is an important field that affects firms' profits in the private sector and is significant to growth, innovation, sustainability, and welfare in the public sector. There is little research about the informing needs of procurement officers in general and particularly in Israel. Methodology A quantitative questionnaire that is sent to all the procurement officers in Israel's purchasing and logistics managers association. ContributionThe questionnaire that is developed in this paper may be used by other researchers and practitioners to evaluate the informing needs of procurement officers. FindingsThe typical procurement officer is male, with a bachelor degree and is digitally proficient. Recommendations for PractitionersThe procuring side can use the questionnaire to develop better tools for obtaining information efficiently. The supplying side can use this knowledge to improve its exposure to potential customers and address its customer's needs better. Recommendation for ResearchersThe questionnaire can address theoretical questions such as how digital literacy affects the procurement process and provide empirical findings about active research areas such as supplier selection and information-seeking behavior. Impact on Society Improvement in the informing-related issues of the procurement process has the potential to reduce costs, drive growth, and discourage corruption.Information Needs: Procurement 150Future Research Future research will examine the relationship between the various variables and demographic features to understand why specific informing needs and information-seeking behaviors arise.

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“…Public e-procurement, commonly referred to as e-GP, is an inter-organizational system (IOS) that is intended to facilitate Government-to-Business (G2B) and Government-Government (G2G) electronic communication, information exchange, and transaction support [53]. E-procurement, which is part of public procurement reform, is a powerful tool to reduce corruption in public procurement as it reinforces transparency, accountability, and integrity in procurement functions [38]. Several developed countries such as Singapore, Australia, the UK, the USA, and Japan have successfully implemented public e-procurement systems and are reaping its benefits [37].…”

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A Systematic Review of Implementation Challenges in Public E-Procurement

Mohungoo

Brown

Kabanda

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Challenges faced in public e-procurement implementation are not well understood despite past studies focusing on the phenomenon. This paper, which is based on a systematic literature review of academic papers, seeks to synthesize and examine the key challenges impeding public e-procurement implementation. These challenges are categorized using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework as follows (1) Technological challenges: e-procurement acceptance and usage, disruptive innovation characteristic of e-procurement, use of digital signatures, security and privacy of technology and technical aspects of e-procurement (2) Organizational challenges: stakeholders' behavior, leaders' behavior, shortcomings in leadership, lack of training and skilled personnel, resistance to change, organizational power and politics and the creation of public value underlying e-procurement (3) Environmental/Contextual challenges: regulatory framework for public procurement, Small-and-Medium-Size Enterprise issues, and context of the country. Key e-procurement implementation challenges are grounded in human and contextual issues. So we recommend more case studies on public e-procurement implementation in the future.

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An Empirical Evaluation Of The Potential Of Public E-Procurement To Reduce Corruption

Cited by 37 publications

References 92 publications

Assessing Procurement Irregularities in the Supply-Chain of Ghanaian Construction Projects: A Soft-Computing Approach

Assessing Procurement Irregularities in the Supply-Chain of Ghanaian Construction Projects: A Soft-Computing Approach

The Informing Needs of Procurement Officers in Israel

A Systematic Review of Implementation Challenges in Public E-Procurement

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