... when public money is spent on goods, works and services. Design/methodology/approach Interviews and focus groups were conducted with public sector buyers and suppliers in Wales with experience in implementing CBs. Resource dependence theory was used to examine the extent to which dependence...

... – The relative newness of the social housing sector and its quasi-public sector status provides an original contribution to the consortia and sustainable procurement literatures. Procurement in the UK’s social housing sector is subject to the legal framework in the EU Public Procurement Directives that seek...

...Ben Clegg, Jillian MacBryde and Prasanta Dey; Zoe Radnor; Joe O'Mahoney Purpose – This paper reflects on the growing trend of engaging management consultancies in implementing operations management innovations in the public sector. Whilst the differences between public and private sector...

...John Mills; Valerie C. Purchase; Glenn Parry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a visualization method developed as a result of an observed need to capture the organizational arrangements of a complex engineering service enterprise. The focal case study is between a public sector...

... and the paper considers how each of the unresolved theoretical issues was addressed in the cases before making a public vs private sector comparison. The paper illustrates differences and similarities between private sector usage of BPR and the two public sector examples given here and concludes...

...Mahmoud M. Yasin; Marwan A. Wafa; Michael H. Small The effective implementation of just‐in‐time (JIT) in the US public sector is examined in this empirical study. Specifically, the relationships between organizational modification efforts prior to JIT implementation, problems encountered during...

... a solution to these problems, in the form of a graphical interface system called ALIAS (Ambulance Location Identification and Analysis System). © MCB UP Limited 1993 Graphical user interfaces Health care Location Models Public sector IJOPM 13,12 36 ALIAS: A Graphical User Interface...

... examples of successful productivity organisations, productivity campaigns and company productivity improvement programmes taking place outside the UK. The article refocuses on the UK by reporting the findings from a productivity study of 28 private and public sector organisations. In conclusion...