Corruption in public procurement remains a challenge to good governance, especially in developing nations. Blockchain technology has been espoused as a new paradigm for achieving sustainable public procurement practices for effective service delivery...
Along with the prevalence of photovoltaic (PV) procurement contracts, the corruption between auctioneers and potential electricity suppliers has attracted the attention of energy regulators. This study considers a corruption-proof environment wherein...
The detection of corruption-related indicators within unstructured, textual procurement data remains a complex task due to linguistic ambiguity, contextual variation and domain-specific terminology. This study presents a comparative evaluation of thr...
Corruption in public procurement is a worldwide appearance that causes immense financial and reputational damages. Especially in developing countries, corruption is a widespread issue due to secrecy and lack of transparency. An important instrument f...
The detection of elevated corruption risk in public procurement, where risk is measured by objective procedural indicators rather than by confirmed corruption, is typically constrained by the fragmentation of the underlying records: each national aut...
Defining output specifications is a prerequisite for achieving Public-Private Partnership (PPP) procurement performance. Theoretically, user satisfaction is vital for output specifications, but it has received insufficient attention in theoretical re...
Governments need to be accountable and transparent for their public spending decisions in order to prevent losses through fraud and corruption as well as to build healthy and sustainable economies. Open data act as a major instrument in this respect...
The awarding of public procurement processes is one of the main causes of corruption in governments, due to the fact that in many cases, contracts are awarded to previously agreed suppliers (favouritism); for this selection, the qualification paramet...
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a household name for developing countries, especially in Africa. The BRI proposal by Chinese President Xi Jinping was positively received by many countries, including policymakers in China. In response, t...
Political corruption affects each nation-state differently, but the outcomes are nominally the same: a deficit of public trust, weakened government institutions and undermined political systems. This article analyzes issues of political corruption in...
Corruption is one of the biggest barriers to sustainable development. Several objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly linked with the fight against corruption, as it has an influence on the achievement of every single deve...
This study examines the application of ensemble machine learning methods for identifying and flagging potentially risky transactions in military public procurement in Ukraine, a sector characterized by elevated financial and security sensitivity and...
Despite local instances of single arbitrators’ corruption not having proven completely absent from arbitration chronicles over the last decades, one may safely argue that until very recently, no scandal had ever been severe enough to shake the...
The South African preferential procurement policy emerged from the demand for transparency, fair competition, value-for-money, standardised and benchmark pricing, and regulation of public procurement arrangements in the construction industry. The pol...
Oil-dependent economies function as complex socio-economic systems in which resource revenues, institutional structures, and investment outcomes are dynamically interlinked. When governance is weak, oil windfalls can trigger reinforcing feedback loop...
White Lists are lists of firms set up at each Italian prefecture. It is a relatively young instrument born as an experimental project designed to solve problems for particular conditions of crime and corruption in the Italian territory. This work aim...
Wildfire escalation is increasingly threatening ecosystems and communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, particularly in forest and rangeland landscapes where ecological flammability interacts with human activity. While environmental and clim...
Identifying factors influencing the viability of medium, small, and micro scale construction firms (MSMSCFs) is a crucial precursor in positioning such firms to aid economic and infrastructural development, especially in developing countries. This ar...
The increasing interest in blockchain since the end of 2017 has induced many attempts to apply it to public sector administration. Blockchains have been shown to improve the levels of economic efficiency, security and decentralization in administrati...
Private sector investment, the mainstream financing method for procuring public road transport development projects, has encountered several profound difficulties and risks during execution, particularly in developing countries. However, there needs...
One of the factors that has steadily eroded the legitimacy of public institutions is the recurrence of corruption and irregularities in state management, especially in procurement processes, budget allocation, and public appointments. These phenomena...
Demand-side management (DSM) is a security-critical function in residential smart grids. The same communication and sensing infrastructure that enables fine-grained load flexibility also exposes schedulers to corrupted measurements, price manipulatio...
One common theme in the international construction sector is project variation, which influences project outcomes. This study argued that variation could occur during the lifecycle of a construction project that might affect the contracted project su...