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Public Procurement: International Cases and Commentary book cover

1st Edition

Public Procurement International Cases and Commentary

Edited By Louise Knight, Christine Harland, Jan Telgen, Khi V. Thai, Guy Callender, Katy McKen Copyright 2007
398 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

400 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

400 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries’ and other sectors’ change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities, presenting case studies of... Read more

1. Public Procurement: Global Big Spending  2. Public Procurement in Perspective  3. Public Procurement Reform in Australia: A Federal-State Evaluation  4. Procurement in the English National Health Service  5. Dutch Healthcare Organization and Financing: Recent Reform and its Impact on Purchasing  6. Budget and Organization Reform: Impact on Public Procurement in Belgium  7. US Federal Government Procurement: Structure, Process and Current Issues  8. Public Procurement in Germany: A Purchasing Cooperative for Energy Sourcing at the German Aerospace Centre  9. The Features and Recent Reforms of Government Procurement in Singapore  10. Public Procurement: A Pillar of Good Governance?  11. The Purchasing Process in Public Procurement  12. Procurement in the United Nations System  13. Consortia Purchasing for Higher Education in Canada, US, UK and Australia  14. Consortia Purchasing and Logistics in Kuopio Area: Lessons Learned from a Four Year Project  15. The Development of Procurement Education: The Queensland (Australia) Experience  16. e-Procurement: A Cross Jurisdictional Comparison  17. The Fraud/Red Tape Dilemma in Public Procurement: A Study of US State and Local Governments  18. A New Era: How to Improve Procurement Services to Clients Presented by Public Works and Government Services Canada  19. South African Provincial Government Reform: Using a Shared Services Model to Transform ‘Back-Office’ Support in Gauteng Province  20. E-Commerce and Information  21. People in Public Procurement  22. Co-operative Purchasing in the Public Sector  23. Procurement: A Strategic Weapon for Change  24. Challenges for Public Procurement

 

Biography

Louise Knight is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS), University of Bath.

Christine Harland is Director of the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS) at the University of Bath.

Jan Telgen is NEVI Professor of Purchasing Management at Twente University, The Netherlands.

Khi V. Thai, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Budgeting and Public Procurement at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Guy Callender is Foundation Chair and Professor of Strategic Procurement at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. 

Katy McKen is Centre Manager at the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS), University of Bath.

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