The procurement business function is increasingly recognized as strategic and subject of performance management. In this paper we present a research model to decompose the procurement function by six maturity dimensions (strategy, e-technology, process, information, monitoring and organization). The model is based on the proposition that an organizations’ procurement performance is positively r...

Procurement excellence is increasingly becoming an important factor in delivering efficient operations within successful companies. On the surface, effectively measuring procurement performance is no rocket science. However looking deeper, adequate measurement of procurement success is a big issue, as bottom-up reported savings can significantly deviate from the key financial figures a CFO look...

Procurement is the process that buyers use to purchase items from sellers. E-procurement uses on-line facilities to conduct some of the procurement activities. In general, e-procurement consists of five major activities: analyze the spending, manage the purchasing requirements, manage the procurement process, implement the new selected supplier(s), and manage the suppliers; see Appendix I for m...

Professor Joshua Schwartz’s theory can be a useful tool for integrating law & development (L&D) and comparative law, despite its limitations. He argues that exceptionalism tendency can be found in contract performance phase in US, which can be explained by the central role of the military procurement in the US public procurement law. He further suggests that developing countries should learn fl...

E-procurement has been identified as an area of B2B e-commerce where IS-enabled transformations of business processes and practices are likely to yield significant benefits. In this paper we present the findings from a recent survey of e-procurement in Australia. The survey is designed around the OECD model of e-business adoption and provides a picture of the readiness, intensity and impact of ...

The first author’s master thesis (published elsewhere) is a comprehensive literature review of 16 years of academic research on Public Procurement. Here we focus on the literature on Green Public Procurement. The original literature review concerns papers published in English in academic journals covered by Scopus and Web of Science in the 1997-2012 timeframe. Through a rigorous review process ...

Public procurement constitutes a large part of the market in many countries, and it has the potential of playing an important role in stimulating communities and serving policy goals. With this in mind the governments have set regulations for public procurement. Procurement of Information Systems is especially challenging due to the complexity of procuring unknown technology and the importance ...

Diminished transaction costs, increased transparency and shortened procurement times entail increased importance of service e-procurement compared to traditional service procurement. Due to proprietary data exchange formats and individual business processes, data harmonization and business process compliance are shortcoming. In this paper a meta-model to formulate requirements of service procur...

Since 1990s, Information Technology has developed at speed. With the development of IT and Internet, E-Government affair has become the focus of every government. As an important part of E-Government Affair, E-Government Procurement has a great influence on the development of economy. Based on the situation of Government Procurement of China, this paper states the importance of benefit evaluati...