IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijpman/v11y2018i4p420-442.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

E-procurement and SME involvement in public procurement of innovations: an exploratory study

Author

Listed:
  • Jani Saastamoinen
  • Timo Tammi
  • Helen Reijonen

Abstract

Current public procurement policies in the European Union (EU) seek to improve small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to public procurement, and emphasise public procurement of innovations (PPI) and aim to promote a switch to e-procurement. However, many information and communication related barriers impede SME access to public sector contracts, which could be mitigated by knowledge management (KM). While e-procurement is expected to increase the involvement of SMEs in public procurement, it is not well-understood how or which KM properties of an e-procurement service will best facilitate PPI. This paper presents an exploratory inquiry of how suppliers perceive the properties of an e-procurement platform, and how these properties are associated with their involvement in PPI. The results show that while information exchange properties were not estimated to be as important as other properties they are nevertheless more important in the sense of being positively associated with participating in PPI.

Suggested Citation

  • Jani Saastamoinen & Timo Tammi & Helen Reijonen, 2018. "E-procurement and SME involvement in public procurement of innovations: an exploratory study," International Journal of Procurement Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 11(4), pages 420-442.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpman:v:11:y:2018:i:4:p:420-442
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92768
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Aristotelis Mavidis & Dimitris Folinas, 2022. "From Public E-Procurement 3.0 to E-Procurement 4.0; A Critical Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-23, September.
    2. Teresa Fayos & Haydeé Calderón & Juan Manuel García-García & Belén Derqui, 2022. "The upcoming rise of SMEs in cross-border public procurement: is it a matter of networking capabilities?," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 537-563, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijpman:v:11:y:2018:i:4:p:420-442. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=255 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.