It is not easy being green: increasing sustainable public procurement behaviour
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To achieve greater sustainability, governments need to continuously adapt their purchasing activities to innovations in the market. Sustainable procurement is a decision-making process in which the decisions of procurers determine if the full potential of sustainable procurement is used. The decisions and thus behaviour of procurers are therefore crucial for the successfulness of sustainable procurement. According to organizational theory, commitment to change could influence this behaviour. Hence, in the study, we examined if commitment to implement sustainable procurement increases sustainable procurement behaviour by Dutch public procurers and what determines this commitment to implement sustainable procurement are. Our study shows first that both affective commitment to implement sustainable procurement and procedural justice increase sustainable procurement behaviour. In addition, the results show that commitment to change acts as a mechanism between fit with vision, ecological sustainability attitude, procedural justice and sustainable procurement behaviour.
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Drivers of CPP implementation include change agents within the organization and clear policy and incentives.
“while drivers include change agents within the organization and clear policy and incentives (Testa et al., 2012;Grandia et al., 2015;Sönnichsen and Clement, 2019;Qazi and Appolloni, 2022).”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredCommon barriers to CPP implementation include a lack of knowledge and resources, a lack of commitment from top management, unfavorable mindset, and a lack of product in the market.
“Common barriers include a lack of knowledge and resources, a lack of commitment from top management, unfavorable mindset and a lack of product in the market”
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“Common barriers include a lack of knowledge and resources, a lack of commitment from top management, unfavorable mindset and a lack of product in the market, while drivers include change agents within the organization and clear policy and incentives (Testa et al., 2012; Grandia et al., 2015; Sönnichsen and Clement, 20…”
Background
- Authors
- Grandia, J., Steijn, B., & Kuipers, B.
- Affiliations
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Grandia, Jolien
- Venue
- Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 243-260
- ISSN
- 1351-1610 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8412
- OpenAlex
- W2064748995
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 14.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pure.eur.nl
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (2010-0000523041)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Public Procurement and Policy
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Keywords
- sustainable public procurement, commitment to change, affective commitment, procedural justice, organizational theory, public procurement
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