Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab

This study focused on establishing the mediating role of opportunistic behavior in the relationship between institutional pressures and procurement cycle time (PCT) in Uganda’s central government (CG) procuring and disposing entities (PDEs). The study also sought to establish the relationship bet...

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Main Author: Olupot,Simon Peter
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Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing Limited 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/1433
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spelling oai:idr.kab.ac.ug:20.500.12493-14332024-01-17T04:46:31Z Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab Olupot,Simon Peter This study focused on establishing the mediating role of opportunistic behavior in the relationship between institutional pressures and procurement cycle time (PCT) in Uganda’s central government (CG) procuring and disposing entities (PDEs). The study also sought to establish the relationship between institutional pressures and PCT, between institutional pressures and opportunity behavior and between opportunistic behavior and PCT. This study was carried out because most PDEs had failed to perform well in terms of PCT, and beneficiaries had often complained of the lengthy PCT. 2023-11-03T12:51:16Z 2023-11-03T12:51:16Z 2023 Article Olupot, P.S. (2023), "Institutional pressures and procurement cycle time in Uganda’s central government procuring and disposing entities: the mediating role of opportunistic behavior", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 23 No. 3/4, pp. 344-364. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP- 04-2023-0024 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/1433 en application/pdf Emerald Publishing Limited
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Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title_full Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title_fullStr Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title_full_unstemmed Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title_short Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda’s Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: The Mediating Role of Opportunistic Behavior Ab
title_sort institutional pressures and procurement cycle time in uganda s central government procuring and disposing entities the mediating role of opportunistic behavior ab
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