رسائل ماجيستير
English
2020
Factors Affecting Implementation of Procurement Strategies in Palestinian Public Sector: The Mediating Role of Procurement Performance
Mohammed Abu Naim, Raed Iriqat
كلية الدراسات العليا-الجامعة العربية الأمريكية · فلسطين
The study aims to highlight factors affecting the procurement strategy implementations, as well as to check if the procurement performance plays a mediating role in enhancing the effect of selected factors in the implementations of procurement strategies in the Palestinian public sector. The study uses the quantitative research method, the structured questionnaire has been developed to collect the primary data, the targeted population is procurement staff in 99 Palestinian governmental institutions, while the study sample is 141 respondents in 22 governmental institutions, while the collected data analyzed by using the SPSS program to conduct the results, the study findings indicate that the selected factors are significantly correlated to procurement performance and implementation of procurement strategies in the Palestinian Public Sector. Moreover, the finding indicates that organizational structure, organizational culture, and resources and capabilities affect the implementation of procurement strategies in the Palestinian public sector, while transformational leadership doesn't affect the implementation of procurement strategies in the Palestinian public sector. The finding also indicates that procurement performance plays a mediating role in enhancing the effect of selected factors in procurement strategy implementations in the Palestinian public sector. The study recommends, That the Palestinian public sector should pay more attention to all selected factors, especially the organizational structure, and modified it in a way that activates the role of procurement staff to achieves the organization's objectives. It also should focus to activate the implementation of procurement strategy by aligning the procurement strategies with available budgets, involve all stakeholders and expert staff in formulating and implementing the procurement strategies, set and activate the KPIs to control and monitor the implementations process. The major limitation of the study is the dataVIcollection was in an emergency period (COVID 19 virus) which made the contact with the governmental institutions and their procurement staff is very difficult. The researcher suggests conducting a study about the reforms in Palestinian public procurement law.