| Capability | Practical feasibility: is GPP practicable for the organization? | Workability | Existence of a catalogue of green criteria or standard requirements for GPP (Plaček et al., 2023) |
| Integration | Existence of a standard procedure or a process support for GPP (Plaček et al., 2023) |
| Capacity | Structural foundation: Does the organization have the prerequisites for GPP? | Social roles | Competence centre for GPP within the social organization (Behravesh et al., 2022) |
| Social norms | Existence of a mission statement, a strategy or directive for GPP (e.g. preamble; Cozzio, 2022; Sönnichsen and Clement, 2020) |
| Material resources | Enough technical and financial resources to implement GPP (Behravesh et al., 2022) |
| Cognitive resources | Enough temporal capacities, expertise in GPP and security regarding procurement legal possibilities and obligations (Behravesh et al., 2022) |
| Potential | Motivational activation: Does the organization even want to do GPP? | Individual intention | Proactive engagement of individuals involved (Behravesh et al., 2022) |
| Shared commitment | Active communication among individuals for exchange (Behravesh et al., 2022) |
| Contribution | Realized action: is the organization actually doing GPP together and on an ongoing basis? | Coherence/sense-making | Proactive promotion of product innovations, capability-action relation (Sönnichsen and Clement, 2020) |
| Collective action | Active avoidance of procurements, integration of green criteria such as limiting ingredients, packaging, use of labels, requirements for production processes and green award criteria (Igarashi et al., 2015) |
| Cognitive participation | Exchange with stakeholders and bidders on the meaningfulness of procurements and their sustainable specifications according to product categories (Vörösmarty and Tátrai, 2019) |
| Reflexive monitoring | Evaluation of procured services for compliance with criteria as well as the measurement of performance and impact through sustainability criteria (Adjei-Bamfo et al., 2019) |