دانلود رایگان مقاله همکاری تدارکات عمومی: توضیحات نهادی مقاومت مشروع

abstract

This paper reports on the barriers to regional collaborative procurement developed from an action research study of five UK public authorities in the emergency services sector. Despite political pressure to procure collaboratively, strategic avoidance responses of institutional logics and symbolic tick boxing legitimise stakeholder resistance to isomorphic forces and entrench operational barriers. The prevailing institutional logics are that regional collaborative procurement is unsuitable and risky, derived from procurement's lack of status and the emotive nature of the emergency services. Symbolic tick boxing is seen through collaboration that is limited to high profile spend categories, enabling organisations to demonstrate compliance while simultaneously retaining local decision-making for less visible, but larger areas of spend. The findings expose choice mechanisms in public procurement by exploring tensions arising from collaborative procurement strategies within, and between, organisations. Multiple stakeholders' perspectives add to current thinking on how organisations create institutional logics to avoid institutional pressure to procure collaboratively and how stakeholders legitimise their actions.

5. Conclusions

In controlled and regulated fields, such as the public sector, a high degree of isomorphism between regional organisations should be expected (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983; D’Aunno et al., 1991; Dacin, 1997; Frumkin and Galaskiewicz, 2004). Our results help our understanding of the problems of developing and implementing collaborative procurement strategies through exposing how stakeholders resist external forces to collaborate. The data suggests that the barriers to collaborative procurement are many, complex and deeply engrained. This study contributes to public procurement research by exploring where, and why, tensions and conflicts occur in collaborative public procurement strategies, both within internal supply chains, and between organisations.