Safe and Sound? The Public Value Trade-Off in Worker Safety and Public Infrastructure Procurement

Charles, Michael B.; Ryan, Rachel; Castillo, Cinthya Paredes; Brown, Kerry

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9302.2008.00638.x

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“…Thus, we have seen public purchasing used to further policy aims like the promotion of environmental solutions through "green" purchasing (Humphreys et. al., 2003;) and the improvement of working conditions by requiring companies buying from the public to show that they have systems for worker health and safety (Charles et. al., 2008).…”

Section: Public Procurement Its Impact and The Eu Directivesmentioning

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Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

Torvatn

Boer

2017

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Research done by researcher involved with the IMP approach has shown clearly that companies that manage to build effective long-term relationships with its suppliers in many cases can achieve higher efficiency, higher quality and a higher rate of innovation than companies who rely solely on competitive, arms-length transactions. Private companies can freely use high-intensity relationships (Araujo et. al., 1999) when this is suitable and thus achieve these advantages.However, for public purchasers, the possibility to build long-term supplier relationships has typically been limited by European and national public purchasing directives. The EU has recently initiated a comprehensive reform of the directives, with among other things, a particular focus on public-private collaboration and innovation. The traditional, arm's length approach towards suppliers seems to give some way to more dialogue and interaction based purchasing approaches.This article will first summarize research that has been critical of the previous public purchasing directives and that has aimed to explain how and why these directives have been limiting. Next, we then discuss the upcoming changes in the EU public purchasing directives in the light of this criticism and we develop some conjectures about the effects we think they might have. Finally, we propose some important areas for future research in this area.

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Section: Public Procurement Its Impact and The Eu Directivesmentioning

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Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

Torvatn

Boer

2017

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“…In the public administration literature, responses to value conflicts are often portrayed as trade‐offs between values (Bozeman ; Charles, Ryan, and Paredes ). An important underlying assumption of trade‐offs is that public actors can “balance the gains of one value against the costs of others,” resulting in “less” of one value compared to “more” of the other (Thacher and Rein , 462).…”

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On Justification Work: How Compromising Enables Public Managers to Deal with Conflicting Values

Oldenhof

Postma

Putters

2013

Public Administration Review

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In the public administration literature, a variety of responses to value conflicts have been described, such as trade‐offs, decoupling values, and incrementalism. Yet little attention has been paid to the possibility of constructive compromises that enable public managers to deal with conflicting values simultaneously rather than separately. The authors use Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's theory of justification to extend current conceptualizations of management of conflicting values. On the basis of a qualitative study of daily practices of Dutch health care managers (executives and middle managers), they show how compromises are constructed and justified to significant others. Because compromises are fragile and open to criticism, managers have to perform continuous “justification work” that entails not only the use of rhetoric but also the adaption of behavior and material objects. By inscribing compromises into objects and behavior, managers are able to solidify compromises, thereby creating temporary stability in times of public sector change.

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“…With every additional goal that a policy/regulation tries to achieve, the tensions within this system aggravate and its complexity multiplies. There is an intriguing gap between public values in the abstract and public values in practice (Charles et al, 2008). The gap can be narrowed through the careful association between values and goals on one side and between goals and constraints on the other leaving ample room for policy makers to tighten or relax this interplay.…”

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Antifragilizing public procurement systems: A paradigm shift¹

Saad

2016

Journal of Public Procurement

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Taints of corruption in public procurement (PP) exist in both developed and developing countries alike- though in different scales and with different characteristics and impacts. Attempts to achieve a taint-free procurement regulation have failed even in the most robust and mature jurisdictions due to an inherent complexity and difficulty given the paradigms used. PP systems today remain fragile to various shocks2 coming mainly from markets and corruption. This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the way in which a PP System (PPS) should be designed and practiced rendering it as “antifragile”3 as possible to benefit from shocks, stresses and disorder. Antifragile PPS design revolutionizes not only the regulations but also the frameworks and institutional setups and the whole practice of the public procurement profession in a manner that permits growth and evolution at times of stress or distress. This paradigm shift is based on a design of the PPS as a complex system.

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Safe and Sound? The Public Value Trade-Off in Worker Safety and Public Infrastructure Procurement

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

On Justification Work: How Compromising Enables Public Managers to Deal with Conflicting Values

Antifragilizing public procurement systems: A paradigm shift¹

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Safe and Sound? The Public Value Trade-Off in Worker Safety and Public Infrastructure Procurement

Cited by 18 publications

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Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?

On Justification Work: How Compromising Enables Public Managers to Deal with Conflicting Values

Antifragilizing public procurement systems: A paradigm shift1

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