How external stakeholders drive the green public procurement practice? An organizational learning perspective
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Purpose: This study aims to uncover the black box of the influence mechanism between external stakeholder drivers and green public procurement practice, and meanwhile to explore the moderating role of administrative level in this process. Green public procurement (GPP) has been widely implemented. Existing literature has found that external stakeholder drivers can affect public sectors' GPP practice, however, the definition of its connotation is still unclear, and how external stakeholders affect GPP practice has remained a black box. Design/methodology/approach: After defining the major external stakeholders, this study develops a multiple mediation theoretical model using survey data from 142 Chinese local public sectors. It aims to uncover the black box of the influence mechanism between external stakeholder drivers and GPP practice and meanwhile explore the moderating effect of administrative levels in this process. Findings: The results show that external stakeholder drivers have a positive relationship with GPP practices. The knowledge of GPP implementation policies and the knowledge of GPP benefits can both mediate this relationship. This study also finds that the administrative level of public sectors can positively moderate the mediating effect produced by the knowledge of GPP implementation policies and negatively moderate the mediation effect produced by the knowledge of GPP benefits. Social implications: Local governments need to better encourage public sectors to implement GPP. Managers of public sectors need to pay attention to organizational learning to acquire relevant knowledge on GPP. Originality/value: This study makes a theoretical contribution to a better understanding of the influence mechanism for GPP practice. This study also provides comparisons of GPP implementation policies between China and European Union.
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The administrative level of the public sector positively moderates the mediating effect produced by knowledge of GPP implementation policies and negatively moderates the mediating effect produced by knowledge of GPP benefits.
“Finally, Liu et al. (2021) showed that the administrative level of the public sector positively moderates the mediating effect produced by knowledge of GPP implementation policies and negatively moderates the mediating effect produced by knowledge of GPP benefits.”
From Green public procurement as an effective way for sustainable development: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2021
Presence of effective social and environmental laws and rewards and recognition associated with compliance is a facilitator of GPP.
“Presence of effective social and environmental laws and rewards and recognition associated with compliance Adjei-Bamfo et al., 2020; Liu et al. (2021)”
From Green public procurement as an effective way for sustainable development: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al. (2021)
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- Authors
- Liu, J., Ma, Y., Appolloni, A., & Cheng, W.
- Affiliations
- Southwest Jiaotong University (CN)
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Venue
- Journal of Public Procurement
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2021-06-16
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 138-166
- ISSN
- 1535-0118 (ISSN-L)
- 2150-6930
- OpenAlex
- W3170250763
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 118
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 7
- FWCI
- 9.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Public Procurement (publishedVersion)
- Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) (submittedVersion)
- 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
- green public procurement, organizational learning, administrative levels, local government, multiple mediation, moderating effect, China
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