While firms have increasingly adopted environmentally and socially sustainablemanagement strategies, little is known about how these organizations react duringtimes of economic constraint. On the one hand, conventional wisdom suggests thatfirms' sustainability strategy would be de-emphasized....

The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...

Italy was the first European country to create a full mandatory plan known as the National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement. This plan established a framework through which green purchasing polices can diffuse throughout Italian municipalities. A primary reason for this action is that...

The Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Australian government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and...

Overall government procurement in Mexico is about $63.5 billion, making it a substantial source of the country’s total expenditures. For comparison, the total gross domestic product in Mexico is $1,220.7 billion. Increasing green purchasing in the public sector is a significant way to improve...

The article examines how local governments’ procurement complexity and structure interact to influence e-procurement adoption. Drawing on the survey data of over 400 cities, we find that a centralized structure enhances the likelihood that local governments adopt an e-procurement system to...

Purpose - Assessing and measuring the extent of organization-level policy implementation has received little scholarly attention, especially in the areas of local governments' procurement and environmental protection. To rectify the paucity of research in this area, this paper adopts...

For green technology firms, government's shifting preference for sustainable products and services is likely to become an increasingly important market factor. Green technology firms are thus in an excellent position to respond to greater calls for environmentally friendly products and services...

Public procurement, the government’s purchase of goods and services, is an important tool to advance sustainability objectives. Since government is the largest consumer in the economy, it can have a sizable impact on the market by purchasing sustainably. However, its sustainability impact...

Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts....