Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality
In an era of intense false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information, where critical challenge is the management of procedural relationships among public procurement partners, it is essential to exploit and identify sources associated with decreasing transparency in competitive te...
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| description | In an era of intense false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information, where critical challenge is the management of procedural relationships among public procurement partners, it is essential to exploit and identify sources associated with decreasing transparency in competitive tendering. The paper is supported by quantitative approach, using structured questionnaire as a data collection technique in a cross-sectional design. In this study, respondents were public procurement practitioners from Local Governments of Singida and Dodoma Regions in Tanzania, while descriptive statistics, regression analysis and moderated regression analysis were employed to analyse data. From the study results, it can be observed bounded rationality as an important element in explaining the existence of false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information to governing rules and regulations which open possibilities for malpractices and non-compliances in competitive tendering. This paper offers new insights relatively into the nature, size and dominancy of bounded rationality in transparency in translating dominancy of false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information to accountability, integrity and value for money. It fills practical and theoretical gap on nature and source of bounded rationality outcomes and clarifies under which circumstances professionalism, legal infrastructures, information disclosure and trust can be distorted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb30ad006ff1421da1de911348f16f892022-12-22T04:15:03ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Business & Management2331-19752022-12-019110.1080/23311975.2022.2147048Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationalityHamisi K. Sama0Procurement and Supplies Department, College of Business Education, Dodoma Campus, Dodoma, TanzaniaIn an era of intense false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information, where critical challenge is the management of procedural relationships among public procurement partners, it is essential to exploit and identify sources associated with decreasing transparency in competitive tendering. The paper is supported by quantitative approach, using structured questionnaire as a data collection technique in a cross-sectional design. In this study, respondents were public procurement practitioners from Local Governments of Singida and Dodoma Regions in Tanzania, while descriptive statistics, regression analysis and moderated regression analysis were employed to analyse data. From the study results, it can be observed bounded rationality as an important element in explaining the existence of false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information to governing rules and regulations which open possibilities for malpractices and non-compliances in competitive tendering. This paper offers new insights relatively into the nature, size and dominancy of bounded rationality in transparency in translating dominancy of false impressions, cognitive limitations and imperfect information to accountability, integrity and value for money. It fills practical and theoretical gap on nature and source of bounded rationality outcomes and clarifies under which circumstances professionalism, legal infrastructures, information disclosure and trust can be distorted.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311975.2022.2147048transparencycompetitive tenderingbounded rationalitypublic procurement |
| spellingShingle | Hamisi K. Sama Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality Cogent Business & Management transparency competitive tendering bounded rationality public procurement |
| title | Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality |
| title_full | Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality |
| title_fullStr | Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality |
| title_short | Transparency in competitive tendering: The dominancy of bounded rationality |
| title_sort | transparency in competitive tendering the dominancy of bounded rationality |
| topic | transparency competitive tendering bounded rationality public procurement |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311975.2022.2147048 |
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