Dr Leila Alinaghian, Senior Lecturer and Course Director of MSc in Management, Leading Complex Change discussed "Social impact in action: the case of social procurement movement" in the online webinar on Thursday 24 March 2022.  In this webinar, Dr Leila Alinaghian focussed on the crucial role that corporate-buyers play in progressing the social procurement movement and discussed best practices, challenges and opportunities across different stages. She reflected on the future and how the social procurement can move forward. 

You can use your free Alumni Library Online (ALO) service to read around this topic.

Here are just a few examples of full-text articles in our databases.

In ABI/INFORM

Troje, D., & Gluch, P. (2020). Beyond policies and social washing: How social procurement unfolds in practice. Sustainability, 12(12), 4956.

Bastante-Ceca, M., Pablo Sebastián Ferrer-Gisbert, & González-Cruz, M. C. (2021). Analysis of the situation of social public procurement of works at the Valencian region (Spain). Sustainability, 13(1), 175.

Crisan, D. (2020). Buying with intent: Public procurement for innovation by provincial and municipal governments. The School of Public Policy Publications (SPPP), 13.

Innocent, C. O., Oyeyipo, O. O., Rapheal, A. O., & Oshodi, O. S. (2021). Factors inhibiting corporate social responsibility initiatives among construction companies. Construction Economics and Building, 21(1).

Engelseth, P., Glavee-Geo, R., Janusz, A., & Niboi, E. (2021). The emergent nature of networked sustainable procurement. Sustainability, 13(1), 134.


In EBSCO Business Source - Alumni

Skelton, S. K. (2022). Social value not yet embedded in procurement. Computer Weekly, 23–29.

Leiser, M. S., & Wolter, S. C. (2017). Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of social public procurement policy: the case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System. LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 31(2), 204–222. 


In Emerald

Troje, D. and Andersson, T. (2021). As above, not so below: developing social procurement practices on strategic and operative levels. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 40(3), 242-258.

Loosemore, M., Higgon, D. and Osborne, J. (2020). Managing new social procurement imperatives in the Australian construction industry. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. 27(10), 3075-3093.

Loosemore, M., Denny-Smith, G., Barraket, J., Keast, R., Chamberlain, D., Muir, K., Powell, A., Higgon, D. and Osborne, J. (2021). Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. 28(7), 1908-1928.

Hamilton, S.G. (2022). Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper? Critical perspectives on international business. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.

In Sage

Ludlow, A. (2016). Social Procurement: Policy and Practice. European Labour Law Journal, 7(3), 479–497.

Open access material

Don’t forget there are an increasing number of articles, reports and theses published open access so anyone can read them online. Here are a few examples of articles on this topic.

Troje, D. & Pernilla Gluch (2020). Populating the social realm: new roles arising from social procurement. Construction Management and Economics. 38:1, 5570. 
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Mupanemunda, M. (2020). Purchasing with purpose: tools to develop an organisational strategy for social procurement, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Fitzroy, Vic.

Patterson Hurt-Suwan, C.J. & Mahler, M.L. (2021). Social procurement to reduce precarious employment for M膩ori and Pasifika workers in the construction industry, K艒tuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. 16:1, 100-115. 
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Denny-Smith, G. (2021). How compliance imperatives stifle the impact of social procurement In: Scott, L and Neilson, C J (Eds) Proceedings of the 37th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-7 September 2021, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 634-643.

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