Literature Review on Public Procurement: Theories, evidence and implications for regional Australia

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Publication TypeResearch ReportAbstractPublic procurement is an intriguing ‘field’, given its apparent and deceiving blandness as a topic, its undeniably huge importance for governments, for industry and for entire economies (only relatively recently acknowledged), and because it has attracted in the last few decades sudden interest and enthusiasm for its ‘promises' to furthering public policy, yet unmatched by much research scrutiny. As a field of enquiry or policy it appears to never have been properly framed, neither claimed by any particular academic discipline nor been the subject of intense academic debates. Increasingly assorted sources have come to claim some parts of the policy territory surrounding public procurement to attempt placing government procurement ‘on the agenda’, but without offering clear ways to integrate that variety of views on the topic; which has resulted in much more advocacy commentary about its potential than in-depth research about its efficacy.AuthorTremblay, P.Boyle, A.Date2018Publication CollectionNorthern Institute Research Reports