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    Partnerships and public procurement: building social capital through supply relations (2002)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 80 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: As one means of dealing with an increasingly interdependent or shared power ‘noone in charge’ world (Bryson and Crosby 1992) and adapting the public sector to the demands of the global economy, successive administrations in the UK have aimed to develop a more strategic approach to public procurement by emphasizing inter–departmental co–ordination and establishing long–term partnership relations with suppliers. This has proved to be a difficult task, however, as the operating framework and culture of the public sector have hindered the development of interorganizational relationships and trust. By focusing on the co–operative processes and interaction within central government departments and between departments and the private sector, this paper aims to analyse and identify the obstacles to, and opportunities for, implementing long–term supply relations and facilitating departmental co–ordination. While the paper argues that partnership relations can build social capital, it also shows that these resources can have both positive and negative effects for public procurement. To conclude, lessons for developing collaborative arrangements in public procurement are identified.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00315
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    SMEs and government purchasing in Northern Ireland: problems and opportunities (2002)
    Bradford : Emerald
    European business review 14 (2002), S. 326-334 
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    ISSN: 0955-534X
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The aim of the paper is to examine the support mechanisms that exist for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Northern Ireland and how access to government contracts can be improved for SMEs. The paper will investigate the rationale for SME involvement in public procurement, as well as drawing upon a series of interviews carried out with government suppliers in Northern Ireland. This paper concludes that even though there are support mechanisms for SMEs at both a UK and at a European level, government tendering procedures need to be simplified to ensure easier access to contracts for SMEs.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09555340210444176
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    Public sector quality: political project or legitimate goal? (1998)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of public sector management 11 (1998), S. 341-353 
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    ISSN: 0951-3558
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: Are quality initiatives in the public sector part of a political project or can they be a legitimate goal? These contrasting, but not necessarily incompatible, interpretations will be examined in this paper, first, by reviewing approaches to quality and their application in the public sector in general, and second, with reference to a case study based on assessment of the Government Purchasing Agency (Northern Ireland) against the European Quality Model (EQM) criteria. Through this, the paper concludes that quality improvement can be a legitimate goal and political project at the same time; that private sector quality models need to be adapted and integrated with other methods to fit public sector organisations; and finally, that their application to a commercially oriented departmental agency (whose customers are largely internal rather than the public at large) is easier than to other public sector organisations in more contentious, politically charged areas.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513559810226734
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