TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of e-government in sustainable public procurement in developing countries
T2 - A systematic literature review
AU - Adjei-Bamfo, Peter
AU - Maloreh-Nyamekye, Theophilus
AU - Ahenkan, Albert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Despite their relatively lower national income, studies suggest that developing countries have consistently advanced their e-government structures. However, there is little knowledge on how governments’ deployment of electronic and internet technologies may be leveraged to stimulate sustainable supply chain management, particularly Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) practices. From a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), this paper affirms such allusions by scholars and reports that government deployment of electronic and internet tools indeed promotes SPP towards the bigger agenda of sustainable development (SDG 12.7). In this paper, 68 articles of heterogeneous research methods published in peer-review journals since 2001–2017 are systematically reviewed. This paper concludes that efforts in building a robust ICT infrastructure, online portals, and human capacity to use ICT offer developing countries inter alia an informative platform for sharing and communicating SPP requirements. E-government also facilitates a wider sample for market readiness assessment and an integrated e-procurement system towards effective SPP monitoring and evaluation. This study has significant implications for promoting sustainability in the downstream supply chain practices in public sector organizations in the developing country context.
AB - Despite their relatively lower national income, studies suggest that developing countries have consistently advanced their e-government structures. However, there is little knowledge on how governments’ deployment of electronic and internet technologies may be leveraged to stimulate sustainable supply chain management, particularly Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) practices. From a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), this paper affirms such allusions by scholars and reports that government deployment of electronic and internet tools indeed promotes SPP towards the bigger agenda of sustainable development (SDG 12.7). In this paper, 68 articles of heterogeneous research methods published in peer-review journals since 2001–2017 are systematically reviewed. This paper concludes that efforts in building a robust ICT infrastructure, online portals, and human capacity to use ICT offer developing countries inter alia an informative platform for sharing and communicating SPP requirements. E-government also facilitates a wider sample for market readiness assessment and an integrated e-procurement system towards effective SPP monitoring and evaluation. This study has significant implications for promoting sustainability in the downstream supply chain practices in public sector organizations in the developing country context.
KW - Developing countries
KW - Public sector e-procurement
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Sustainable public procurement
KW - Systematic literature review
KW - e-Government
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U2 - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.12.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058041695
SN - 0921-3449
VL - 142
SP - 189
EP - 203
JO - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
JF - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
ER -