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Title | ||
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The public procurement of information systems: dialectics in requirements specification. |
Abstract | ||
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AbstractWhen acquiring information systems, public entities face a dilemma. On the one hand, they want to procure the system that best suits their needs, which often requires lengthy dialogues with vendors. At the same time, they are restricted by government regulations that mandate limited dialogue in the interests of transparency and equal opportunities for all vendors. To examine how public entities deal with this, we followed three procurement projects in Norway. We show that this dilemma manifests itself as a dialectic between the thesis of getting the system requirements right and the antithesis of strictly adhering to regulations. Public entities search for a resolution of this dialectic through two syntheses: selecting an appropriate tendering procedure, and learning how to specify requirements through networks of peer public entities. Our findings reveal that the syntheses are possible because the dialectic is actually complimentary, both the thesis and the antithesis are needed to create the joi... |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1057/s41303-017-0035-4 | EJIS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
procurement, public procurement, government procurement, information system procurement, requirements specification, dialectics in IS | Information system,Government procurement,Public relations,Computer science,Knowledge management,Dilemma,Software requirements specification,Procurement,Dialectic,Process management | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
26 | 2 | 1476-9344 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.37 | 22 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Erik Moe | 1 | 78 | 12.22 |
| Mike Newman | 2 | 2 | 0.37 |
| Maung Kyaw Sein | 3 | 12 | 2.39 |