The influence of the status quo bias theory in the compliance to public procurement regulations in a Sub-Saharan economy

David Asamoah, Jonathan Annan, Samuel Bruce Rockson and Diana Effah-Baah

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 15-40

Abstract: The importance of public procurement cannot be overemphasised, as this is a tool for achieving efficiency and value in acquisition of goods, works and services. Public sector bodies are required to conduct public procurement according to public procurement law. However, user resistance to the compliance of the procurement regulations have been reported in extant literature. Yet, there is lack of research on understanding users' non-compliance of public procurement laws, especially in sub-Saharan Africa nations such as Ghana. This study uses the status quo bias (SQB) theory to investigate why users fail to comply with the public procurement regulations in a Sub-Saharan nation. We collected data from 84 public sector institutions in Ghana and ordinary least square (OLS) regression was used to analyse the measurement and structural models. Three (3) out of the seven (7) hypothesis developed were supported. We offer theoretical and managerial implications.

Keywords: public procurement; status quo bias theory; SQB; compliance; firm resistance; Ghana. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=96995 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijpman:v:12:y:2019:i:1:p:15-40

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Procurement Management from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().