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Governments of highly developed western nations with colonised Indigenous populations such as Australia, Canada and South Africa are increasingly turning to social procurement policies in an attempt to solve social inequities between Indigenous people and other citizens. They seek to use policies and funds attached to infrastructure development and...
Purpose
Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative...
In Australia, 9.4% of young people aged 15–24 are unemployed, more than double the national rate. The national employment services system in Australia has, however, not successfully tackled this issue. While some wraparound programs have been implemented to better address young people's needs, most are designed to find young people any job rather t...
Australian governments design and seek to use Indigenous Procurement Policies (IPPs) to leverage their purchasing power, create social value and address Indigenous Australians’ exclusion from the mainstream workforce, including in the construction industry. However, understanding the social value that IPPs create has thus far been limited to econom...
Indigenous procurement policies (IPPs) have created more business and employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. IPPs in Australia require contractors tendering on government-funded projects to include more Indigenous businesses and employees in supply chains. This type of social procurement, as it is called, is a new approach to addressi...
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This research addresses the lack of project management research into social procurement by exploring the risks and opportunities of social procurement from a cross-sector collaboration perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
A content analysis of five focus groups conducted with thirty-five stakeholders involved in the implementation of a...
There has been a recent proliferation of social procurement policies in Australia that target the construction industry. This is mirrored in many other countries, and the nascent research in this area shows that these policies are being implemented by an emerging group of largely undefined professionals who are often forced to create their own role...
Indigenous procurement policies (IPPs) have exceeded their mandated targets in the construction industry and thus been promoted as an effective social procurement initiative to increase Indigenous peoples' participation in the economy. However, it is unclear if Indigenous procurement policies generate social value for Indigenous businesses and comm...
COVID-19 has created or amplified economic and social crises internationally. Australia entered its first recession in 30 years and saw a significant rise in unemployment. In response, Australian governments have increased their commitments to infrastructure construction to stimulate the national economy and combined this with new social procuremen...
Indigenous procurement policies encourage the construction sector to provide new training, employment and business opportunities for Indigenous people suffering from economic and social disadvantage. However, the success of these policies is often distorted by the failure of policy evaluations to account for Indigenous perceptions of social value....
In countries like Australia, Canada and South Africa with large Indigenous populations, governments are increasingly turning to social procurement to solve entrenched social problems like Indigenous disadvantage. Social procurement works by leveraging construction and infrastructure spending to encourage construction firms to give back to the commu...
This paper argues that current methods of social impact assessment fail to adequately articulate the social impact of Indigenous procurement policies, presenting an overly optimistic and westernised view of success which does not align with Indigenous perspectives of social value. Using strain theory as a theoretical base, we show how social procur...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to entry for Indigenous businesses into the Australian construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
A national survey and were conducted with 33 Indigenous businesses operating in the Australian construction industry.
Findings
The findings show that Indigenous enterprises face...
Many Indigenous populations around the world face enormous challenges of relatively high unemployment, poor health and integrating into modern society. The Australian
government is seeking to address these problems through social procurement initiatives that encourage construction clients and firms to employ Indigenous businesses in their supply ch...