Procedural justice in procurement management and inclusive interorganizational relations:An institutional perspective

Abstract

This paper applies the concept of procedural justice to one of the most important focal points of interorganizational relations: the purchaser-supplier relationship. The few extant studies of the concept in the purchaser-supplier domain have overlooked an important aspect of this key relationship: that is, inclusiveness in procurement. This is despite the fact that interest in the specific empirical context of supply chain links between large purchasing organizations (LPOs) and ethnic minority suppliers (EMSs) from disadvantaged communities proceeds apace on both sides of the Atlantic. Institutional theory is used to examine the form that procedural justice takes in eight case studies of LPOs from the private and public sectors, which actively engage with inclusive procurement management initiatives in England. The guiding question is twofold: 'What may LPO approaches to installing procedural justice in procurement management entail?' and 'How are these approaches shaped?' This paper identifies specific approaches to installing procedural justice for inclusive procurement and submits theoretical propositions about how these are shaped. The study contributes to a macro-level assessment of procedural justice, i.e. interorganizational procedural justice, as a significant aspect of inclusive interorganizational relationships, which is a domain in need of theoretical development.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12071
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Work & Organisational Psychology
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2014 The Authors. British Journal of Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the British Academy of Management. This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,Business, Management and Accounting(all)
Publication ISSN: 1467-8551
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 08:09
Date Deposited: 09 Apr 2015 15:35
Full Text Link: http://onlineli ... .12071/abstract
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015
Published Online Date: 2014-09-17
Authors: Theodorakopoulos, Nick (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-2262-0054)
Ram, Monder
Kakabadse, Nada

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