Social Procurement and New Public Governance

Barraket, Jo; Keast, Robyn; Furneaux, Craig

doi:10.4324/9780203797532

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“…The social procurement literature suggests that construction firms which engage in social procurement can derive significant benefits beyond simply complying with emerging social procurement legislation and policies. These potential benefits include: competitive advantage and greater innovation in bids (with socially responsible clients); improved employee recruitment, engagement and retention; improved community engagement and public relations; leverage into new business networks and markets; and more resilient and diversified supply chains (Loosemore 2015, Barraket et al, 2016, Flammer, 2015, Andayani and Atmini 2012.…”

Section: Type 4 -'Corporate Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social procurement practices of tier-one construction contractors in Australia

Loosemore

Reid

2018

Construction Management and Economics

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Social procurement is becoming an increasingly important requirement in the delivery of private and public-sector construction projects in many parts of the world, yet there is relatively little research in this area. Mobilising Furneaux and Barraket's (2014) social procurement typology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior managers from eight tier-one contractors in the Australian construction industry to explore and classify the types of social procurement strategies used in projects, the types of social value created and the barriers to implementation. Documentary data was also collected in the form of company policies and contract requirements. The results demonstrate the conceptual merit of Furneaux and Barraket's (2014) typology in a construction industry context by highlighting the different constraints on social value creation for each type of social procurement. The results also indicate that approaches to social procurement in the Australian construction industry are generally driven by a philosophy of risk mitigation rather than opportunity maximisation, are confined to low value and low risk construction activities and are constrained by a lack of existing and new supply chain social-value creation capacity. Construction industry social value chains are fragile in Australia and it is concluded that that in building the sector's significant untapped capacity to deliver social value to the communities in which it builds, priority should be given to three main strategies: third sector capacity building; barrier-to-entry reduction; and skills development in managing new cross-sector collaborations between public, private and third sector organisations.

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Section: Type 4 -'Corporate Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social procurement practices of tier-one construction contractors in Australia

Loosemore

Reid

2018

Construction Management and Economics

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“…Our research contributes to studies that explore the role of political discourses in policy transfer (Prince 2010;Stone 2017;Ureta 2014) and public procurement (Barraket, Keast, and Furneaux 2016;Mason 2012). First, we show that the Australian experience of transferring the United States supplier diversity model into the context of Indigenous public procurement represents an example of 'incomplete' policy transfer (Dolowitz and Marsh 2000).…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Public procurement involves the practices of acquiring, purchasing and contracting public goods and services and has become one of the major economic activities of government (McCrudden 2007;Thai 2001). Public procurement has gained recognition as a key component of public management and administration scholarship (Erridge 2007;Snider and Rendon 2012) and is viewed as a key mechanism of New Public Governance given the involvement of non-government actors in achieving policy goals (Barraket, Keast, and Furneaux 2016). Broader research on public procurement has explored the nature of public-private partnerships (Bovaird 2006;Erridge and Greer 2002;Reeves 2008;Grimsey and Lewis 2007), its role in stimulating innovation (Edler and Georghiou 2007;Uyarra and Flanagan 2010;Uyarra et al 2014), and its increasing use a tool to achieve social policy goals (Barraket, Keast, and Furneaux 2016;Erridge 2007;McCrudden 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Public procurement policies have focused on achieving social outcomes such as addressing employment, social exclusion, and economic development of small and minority owned firms (Erridge and McIlroy 2002;Erridge 2007;McCrudden 2004McCrudden , 2007. Public procurement is a seen as a tool for policymakers to increase prosperity and enhance social and economic well-being (Torvinen and Haukipuro 2018), and is often called social procurement (Barraket, Keast, and Furneaux 2016;Furneaux and Barraket 2014;Loosemore 2016) or sustainable procurement (Preuss 2009;Walker and Brammer 2009;Young, Nagpal, and Adams 2016). 1 Specifically, public procurement for policy outcomes has focused on implementing mechanisms that: (i) enforce antidiscrimination laws, (ii) promote affirmative action in employment, and (iii) stimulate entrepreneurial activity by marginalized groups (McCrudden 2004).…”

Section: Public Procurement To Achieve Social Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Double-taxing’ Indigenous business: exploring the effects of political discourse on the transfer of public procurement policy

Cutcher

Ormiston

Gardner

2019

Public Management Review

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This article details how shifts in political discourse can reconfigure the intent, and effect the outcomes, of public procurement policy. Through critical discourse analysis of public procurement policies focused on supplier diversity in Australia, we explore how discursive struggles over policy meaning and intent can have real effects. Our findings show how the intent of public procurement policy shifted from stimulating Indigenous entrepreneurial activity to affirmative action in employment. We highlight how this policy mutation shifted responsibility for solving the intractable problem of Indigenous unemployment away from the government and corporate Australia and on to Indigenous business.

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“…Javnom nabavom koristi se značajan dio proračunskih sredstava države, čime ona predstavlja velik dio državne potrošnje, ali i značajan dio opće gospodarske djelatnosti u svakoj državi. Tako postoje procjene da javne nabave čine oko 19 posto BDP-a Europske unije 1 (u nastavku rada: EU), dok je u Republici Hrvatskoj taj postupak nešto niži i čini oko 12 posto BDP-a. 2 Upravo činjenica da država kroz postupke javne nabave čini 1 Izjava Povjerenika za unutarnje tržište i usluge Barniera povodom usvajanja novog regulatornog okvira za javnu nabavu, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO- 14- tako značajan dio gospodarstva, daje državi dodatnu moć i mogućnosti utjecaja na tržišna zbivanja.…”

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