Public Procurement Incentives for Sustainable Design Services: Swedish Experiences

Sporrong, Josefin; Bröchner, Jan

doi:10.3763/aedm.2009.0903

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“…However, a recent study by Wasserbaur and Milios [78] in Swedish municipalities revealed that it is not uncommon that selection bias and user preferences of the procurement officers occur during the drafting of tender specifications, as procurers are more likely to prioritise/prescribe the utility or the product they are familiar with. This is also reflected in research by Sporrong and Bröchner [79] suggesting that procurement officers hold individual preferences, which are mirrored in their procedures for procurement. Therefore, the study of individuals' perceptions of remanufactured products is of the highest importance, and further studies would be beneficial for understanding consumers' attitudes and influencing consumer's acceptance towards remanufactured products.…”

Section: Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 72%

Consumer Perception of Remanufactured Automotive Parts and Policy Implications for Transitioning to a Circular Economy in Sweden

Milios¹,

Matsumoto²

2019

Sustainability

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Promoting longer lifetimes and efficient re-use of products has a significant potential to save resources and reduce adverse environmental impacts, especially for products that have large resource footprints related to extraction and production processes, as for instance automobiles. Remanufacturing is a product life extension strategy promoting the effective and efficient re-use of products by replacing worn-out components with used or end-of-life parts restored to “like-new” condition and functionality. For developing remanufacturing processes, it is important to take into account the consumers’ perception of remanufactured products, together with factors such as technology and operations management. Previous research has concluded that the perception of a product or service constitutes a critical factor in consumers’ decision-making. However, there is a lack of studies exploring consumers’ perceptions of remanufactured parts, especially in Europe. This contribution analyses the results of an on-line survey (n = 203) of Swedish consumers, concerning their familiarity with remanufactured auto parts and their perceptions on associated benefits and risks. The survey revealed that Swedish car owners have limited knowledge about remanufactured parts. On the other hand, they do recognise the benefits of using such parts, without showing a significant risk aversion in their purchase decision. The survey also explored consumers’ opinion on potential measures to bridge the identified gap in knowledge, revealing that although they would trust a quality certification scheme for remanufactured auto parts—preferably set up by an industry association—that would not be the most critical factor in their purchase decision. Concluding, the article points out the potential of policy interventions to raise consumers’ perception of remanufactured parts to create a market pull for expanding their uptake, and thus increasing the overall resource efficiency in the automotive sector.

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Section: Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 72%

Consumer Perception of Remanufactured Automotive Parts and Policy Implications for Transitioning to a Circular Economy in Sweden

Milios¹,

Matsumoto²

2019

Sustainability

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“…Existing studies have focused on how sustainable outcomes can be realized through public procurement, e.g., [66], and how public procurement has been utilized to promote sustainability in different settings, e.g., [67]. Examples of themes discussed are how life cycle costs can be used for sustainable public procurements of the built environment, e.g., [68,69], and the connection between sustainability, public procurement and digitalization, e.g., [70]. Finally, the few studies that have more critical stances have not explored public procurement of the built environment, but are limited to the broader public procurement system [18,61].…”

Section: Competing Theoretical Perspectives On Sustainability and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a Sustainable Society: Construction, Public Procurement Policy and ‘Best Practice’ in the European Union

2021

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Sustainability and sustainable development are political and essentially contested social phenomena. Despite this ambiguity, they continue to hold a central position as apolitical concepts in much of social science and policy making. In Europe, public procurement is increasingly used as a tool to reach sustainability, a fact that actualizes an inherent tension between politically charged objectives on the one hand, and technological processes and market logics on the other. Therefore, in this article, we investigate this tension by studying policies relating to sustainable public procurement of the built environment in the EU. We argue that governing any policy domain entails the construction and representation of particular policy problems. Hence, we focus on how the ‘problems’ of sustainable public procurement are represented in EU policy guidance and best practice documents. Our analysis shows that these central policy documents are dominated by a problem representation where unsustainability is constructed as technical design flaws and market failure. This has the primary effect that it renders sustainable development as, primarily, a technical issue, and beyond politics. Therefore, we conclude that current policy reproduces ‘weak’ forms of sustainable development, where the practice is depoliticized and premised upon continued growth and innovation.

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“…Topics and themes such as life cycle costs and the built environment are fairly common (e.g. Sporrong and Bröchner 2009;Tarantini, Loprieno, and Porta 2011) as is the linkage between digitalisation, public procurement, and sustainability (e.g. Brammer and Walker 2011).…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Buying a sustainable society: the case of public procurement in Sweden

Olsson

Öjehag-Pettersson

2020

Local Environment

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In this article, we conduct a governmentality analysis of Swedish public procurement in order to show how the notion of sustainability is constructed in this circumstance. We argue that the mainstream approach to sustainability policy in most countries lies within capitalist market rationalities, thus making it crucial to study how such rationalities shape and represent the problems of unsustainability and how these "problems" limit the possibilities for politics and policy in practice. Furthermore, public procurement is a central instrument through which these rationalities are realised and maintained. Thus, the purpose is to examine how problems of unsustainability are represented through public procurement policy and the effects they constitute for the politics of sustainability. To this end we mobilise the Foucauldian based "what's the problem represented to be" approach. As data, we use policy documents published with respect to public procurement in Sweden. Our findings show that the dominant problem representation constructs unsustainability as a market failure, limiting the possibilities for politics and policies of sustainability in several ways. This includes premising sustainability upon the continued expansion of capitalism; constituting the agents of change as apolitical actors; making sustainability a voluntary ambition for the procuring organisations; and constructing the legitimate claim to earth's resources and sinks as a matter of purchasing power, with important implications for environmental justice. However, our analysis also shows a tension in the material creating openings for a politicisation of the representations of sustainability.

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Public Procurement Incentives for Sustainable Design Services: Swedish Experiences

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Consumer Perception of Remanufactured Automotive Parts and Policy Implications for Transitioning to a Circular Economy in Sweden

Consumer Perception of Remanufactured Automotive Parts and Policy Implications for Transitioning to a Circular Economy in Sweden

Building a Sustainable Society: Construction, Public Procurement Policy and ‘Best Practice’ in the European Union

Buying a sustainable society: the case of public procurement in Sweden

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