Ruben Nicolàs

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Ruben Nicolàs |Rubén Nicolás |Fredo Schotanus

ABSTRACTPublic organizations increasingly engage in sustainable public procurement (SPP), but their efforts vary. Analysing 1,346 Dutch public tenders, we explore the applicability of legitimacy theory to explain how the visibility of procurement actions affects SPP efforts. We find that the use of third-party certificates is positively associated with SPP efforts, indicating that there is no box-ticking behaviour.