Eckersley, Peter and Flynn, Anthony and Lakoma, Katarzyna and Ferry, Laurence (2022) 'Public procurement as a policy tool: The territorial dimension.', Regional Studies .
Abstract
We analysed 90,000 contracts involving UK local authorities between 2015-19 to examine patterns and potential drivers of regional sourcing. We found councils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are much more likely to select suppliers based within their regions compared to their counterparts in England. We found no discernible trend of English councils increasingly preferring regional suppliers, and no correlation between party-political control and regional sourcing. We suggest contrasting institutional and political contexts determine these territorial differences and present a framework to explain supplier selection in these terms, incorporating a territorial dimension alongside more traditional left-right ideological factors.
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| Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0. File format - PDF (875Kb) |
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| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2134850 |
| Publisher statement: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Date accepted: | 05 October 2022 |
| Date deposited: | 10 October 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 15 November 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 09 March 2023 |
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