TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Procurement and Public Financial Management in Africa
T2 - Dynamics and Influences
AU - Bawole, Justice Nyigmah
AU - Adjei-Bamfo, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - How do public procurement practices influence effective public financial management (PFM) in Africa? Notwithstanding the several public procurement reforms to improve PFM in Africa, outcomes have not been sustainable. Prior studies have failed to explain this phenomenon. With a descriptive case study design based on comprehensive datasets, this paper explains this situation with three key factors underlying the public procurement environment in three African countries: Ethiopia, Central African Republic, and Ghana. From the agency theory lenses, these factors affect the agency cost in public administrative systems necessary for addressing the agency problems in public procurement management towards desired PFM outcomes.
AB - How do public procurement practices influence effective public financial management (PFM) in Africa? Notwithstanding the several public procurement reforms to improve PFM in Africa, outcomes have not been sustainable. Prior studies have failed to explain this phenomenon. With a descriptive case study design based on comprehensive datasets, this paper explains this situation with three key factors underlying the public procurement environment in three African countries: Ethiopia, Central African Republic, and Ghana. From the agency theory lenses, these factors affect the agency cost in public administrative systems necessary for addressing the agency problems in public procurement management towards desired PFM outcomes.
KW - Africa
KW - Central African Republic
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Ghana
KW - Principal agency theory
KW - Public financial management
KW - Public procurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060968580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11115-019-00443-7
DO - 10.1007/s11115-019-00443-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060968580
SN - 1566-7170
VL - 20
SP - 301
EP - 318
JO - Public Organization Review
JF - Public Organization Review
IS - 2
ER -