The “Mental Revolution” of the Public Procurement Specialist: Achieving Transformative Impacts within the Context of E-Procurement

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Author(s): Alexandru V. Roman (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 16
Source title: Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Natasa Pomazalová (University of Defence in the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2665-2.ch001

Keywords: Business & Management / Decision Support Systems / Information Science Reference / Public and Sector Management

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This chapter suggests an original perspective for delineating the role played by procurement specialists within the context of the efforts to redefine digital public procurement as a major pylon in the transformation of governance. Although in the last two decades scholars have provided an abundance of quality academic accounts addressing the possible transformative benefits of e-procurement, more often than not, public procurement specialists remain a mere afterthought within such discussions. In this chapter, it is argued that the digitalization of public procurement will sustain the desired transformative returns only if these efforts are accompanied by a reformative evolution of public procurement professionals. Paradoxically, transformation at the individual level is found to be the key element for instituting genuine changes and effectively employing digital decision-making support systems in public procurement.

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