This paper examines how electronic procurement influences the organization of economic transactions. It seeks evidence … transparent markets. Testing the relationship between the effect of electronic procurement on procurement cost and sourcing … strategy, I provide new evidence that electronic procurement leads to more market transactions. This leads to the conclusion …

also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end …, we analyze the transactions completed in the period 2004-2007 through the Italian Government's e-procurement platform …, that is, the marketplace managed by the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip S.p.A.). Although descriptive statistics …