Aspects of sustainable procurement practices by public and private organisations in Saudi Arabia: an empirical study

Islam, Mohammad Mazharul; Murad, Wahid; McMurray, Adela; Abalala, Turki

doi:10.1080/13504509.2016.1209794

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“…Fahimnia et al, 2015). There are, for example, works on sustainable public procurement in countries such as China (Zhu et al, 2013), India (Agarchand and Laishram, 2017), Saudi Arabia (Islam et al, 2017), South Africa (Mashele and Chuchu, 2018) and Malaysia (Mcmurray et al, 2013). The existing research tends to examine particular-mostly developed-countries, such as the UK, Sweden, the USA and Germany (Brammer and Walker, 2011;Roman, 2017;Palm and Backman, 2017), with a scarcity of studies in a Brazilian context.…”

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Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America

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Pereira

et al. 2018

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In light of the Theory of Ecological Modernisation, this is the first work to explore the organisational barriers affecting one of the most significant sustainable public procurement initiatives in Latin America: the Brazilian Environmental Agenda for Public Operations Management (the 'A3P Programme'). This article explores the barriers to sustainable procurement in a Brazilian context, inspired by the work of Brammer and Walker (2011). Based on the results of a survey of programme managers, our first recommendation is to group the barriers to sustainable procurement into five categories: organisational culture, motivation, economic uncertainty, market, and operations. Amongst these, it was found that organisational culture stands out as a particular barrier to sustainable public procurement. This work also highlights Ecological Modernisation Theory as a useful tool for understanding why variables related to cost and budget are not barriers to implementing sustainable public procurement initiatives. Consequently, the main implication of this study is that government should consider cultural change management when developing sustainability management initiatives.

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Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America

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Jabbour

Pereira

et al. 2018

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“…Particularly, there is virtually no academic literature that addresses the female students' career aspirations in starting their own businesses in Saudi Arabia, a developing country with a major G20 economy. The current unemployment problem facing the young generation presents a serious matter, where approximately 78.3% of female university graduates are unemployed [23], with significant geographical, economical, legal, cultural, and political differences from Western developed and other developing countries [24,25]. In recognition of this, the country stresses several actions to fulfill its 2030 vision's goals, which concern decreasing total unemployment rate from 11.6% to 7%; raising SME's contribution to GDP from 20% to 35%; and enhancing women's participation in the workforce from 22% to 30% [26].…”

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Perceptions to Start up Business as a Career Choice among Saudi Female Higher Education Students

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This study explored factors inspiring female university students in Saudi Arabia to choose entrepreneurship as their career choice. This explorative empirical study sought to explore this phenomenon in the context of a culture of socialization strongly attached to religion and steeped in tradition. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire survey administered to female university students. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used to identify influencing factors. The results mostly support previous study findings on perceptions about the drivers of females' aspirations in venture creation. Entrepreneurship and business-related courses and media roles are recognized as the most influential factors explaining reasons for the choice of occupation and career. However, this study found only mixed support for these variables. Interestingly, this study found that social learning theory was negatively and significantly related to the decision of female university students to start up a business as a career choice, opposite to previous findings. The findings will assist relevant authorities in facilitating an increase in female entrepreneurship to contribute to the national Vision 2030.

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“…The position of top management and the cultural features of a company's operation represent the chief obstacle in adequately putting sustainable procurement into operation, followed by organizational and financial capacity, in addition to approaches. A positive position and backing from the top management as well as a coherent grasp of the sustainable procurement notion, satisfactory sustainable procurement assimilation into the entire organizational strategy, and written procurement methodology and register are imperative to carrying out sustainable procurement routines [47].…”

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Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

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Research has identified that there is a paucity of reviews covering green public procurement (GPP) in terms of environmentally responsible behavior and sustainability policy adoption. Using, comprehensively, the most recent (2017–2020) and relevant (Web of Science- and Scopus-indexed) empirical sources, our paper fills the gap in the literature by focusing on the main developing streams of research, that is: How GPP drives the circular economy; GPP of construction and building materials; environmental and supply chain management measures in GPP; the procurement of sustainable innovation; environmental policy objectives of GPP as regards energy, pollution, carbon footprint, and climate change; GPP as an environmental policy mechanism for production and use of sustainable goods and services; and GPP as an integral component of sustainable development and performance. Further investigations can explore hot topics related to the role of GPP in the automated algorithmic decision-making processes taking place in data-driven smart sustainable cities because the harnessing, among other things, of sensing and computing technologies, network connectivity systems, and the Cognitive Internet of Things will fulfill the incessant exigencies of public administration.

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Aspects of sustainable procurement practices by public and private organisations in Saudi Arabia: an empirical study

Cited by 56 publications

References 27 publications

Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America

Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America

Perceptions to Start up Business as a Career Choice among Saudi Female Higher Education Students

Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

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