A Review of Public Administration Research: Where Does Public Procurement Fit In?

Evelyn Trammell, Sawsan Abutabenjeh and Ana-Maria Dimand

International Journal of Public Administration, 2020, vol. 43, issue 8, 655-667

Abstract: This study conducts a content analysis of public procurement research in top ranked public administration journals to identify prevalent procurement topics and where gaps exist. This research is unprecedented and illustrates the current integration of procurement in public administration. Results demonstrate that procurement research comprises a small portion of research, economic theories are the prevalent theoretical foundation, and mixed methodology is seldom utilized. Findings demonstrate how future research can contribute to theory and expand the focus of public procurement scholarship in public administration. The main limitation is reliance on systematic reviews of specialized procurement journals as the basis for comparison.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01900692.2019.1644654 (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:taf:lpadxx:v:43:y:2020:i:8:p:655-667

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/lpad20

DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1644654

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Public Administration is currently edited by Ali Farazmand

More articles in International Journal of Public Administration from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().