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Article publication date: 22 May 2020

Issue publication date: 26 November 2020

Despite the substantial research in the domain of electronic procurement adoption, usage and performance (EP AUP), there is no structured review of these studies and most of the literature is in fragmented form. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate and synthesize EP AUP research in the past two decades and map key research approaches, prevailing theories and antecedents used by researchers to study EP AUP at the individual user and organizational level.

Design/methodology/approach

To evaluate and comprehend past and current patterns/themes in the EP AUP research area, a systematic literature review is undertaken. Significant peer-reviewed studies covering three categories – adoption, usage and performance and seven classification criteria are critically reviewed.

The findings reveal that most investigators mainly used “technology acceptance model,” “technology–organization–environment” framework and their extensions, demonstrating that “perceived ease of use,” “perceived usefulness,” “trust,” “organizational size,” “organizational readiness” and “behavioral intentions” are the most critical drivers of EP AUP.

Research limitations/implications

For researchers and practitioners, the review highlights a taxonomy of contextual factors to be considered for successful EP AUP. It further makes suggestions for future research meeting challenges of Industry-4.0.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic literature review undertaken in the field of EP that studies it from three different perspectives. It further builds on the determinants of EP AUP and classifies them in four distinct categories: organizational, individual, information system level and environmental.

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Nandankar, S. and Sachan, A. (2020), "Electronic procurement adoption, usage and performance: a literature review", Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management , Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 515-535. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-02-2020-0031

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A Systematic Review of Implementation Challenges in Public E-Procurement

Idah mohungoo.

Department of Information System, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa

Irwin Brown

Salah kabanda.

Challenges faced in public e-procurement implementation are not well understood despite past studies focusing on the phenomenon. This paper, which is based on a systematic literature review of academic papers, seeks to synthesize and examine the key challenges impeding public e-procurement implementation. These challenges are categorized using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework as follows (1) Technological challenges: e-procurement acceptance and usage, disruptive innovation characteristic of e-procurement, use of digital signatures, security and privacy of technology and technical aspects of e-procurement (2) Organizational challenges: stakeholders’ behavior, leaders’ behavior, shortcomings in leadership, lack of training and skilled personnel, resistance to change, organizational power and politics and the creation of public value underlying e-procurement (3) Environmental/Contextual challenges: regulatory framework for public procurement, Small-and-Medium-Size Enterprise issues, and context of the country. Key e-procurement implementation challenges are grounded in human and contextual issues. So we recommend more case studies on public e-procurement implementation in the future.

Introduction

Public e-procurement, commonly referred to as e-GP, is an inter-organizational system (IOS) that is intended to facilitate Government-to-Business (G2B) and Government-Government (G2G) electronic communication, information exchange, and transaction support [ 53 ]. E-procurement, which is part of public procurement reform, is a powerful tool to reduce corruption in public procurement as it reinforces transparency, accountability, and integrity in procurement functions [ 38 ]. Several developed countries such as Singapore, Australia, the UK, the USA, and Japan have successfully implemented public e-procurement systems and are reaping its benefits [ 37 ]. However, in many countries, the implementation of public e-procurement systems is perceived as daunting [ 9 , 16 , 18 , 34 , 37 , 52 ] and it is not used to its full potential.

Sub-Saharan African countries, which on average have low scores on the corruption perception index [ 51 ], have expressed enthusiasm and interest in adopting e-procurement to help to curb corruption and make significant economic impacts. However, these countries face several e-procurement implementation challenges, which if not addressed, can firstly, delay the implementation process which has cost implications and; secondly, motivated leaders can lose interest and enthusiasm in driving implementation if there are too many challenges to be addressed.

Given that public e-procurement implementation is still problematic implies that implementation challenges of public e-procurement have not been well understood to date. To this end, this paper aims to provide an in-depth examination and synthesis from an information system (IS) perspective of the challenges to public e-procurement implementation using a sequentially-phased qualitative systematic literature review approach as informed by Okoli [ 39 ]. The research question, “ What are the implementation challenges to public e - procurement? ” will thus be addressed.

Conceptual Background

Public e-procurement implementation is a complex endeavour characterized by multiple Government-to-Business organizations (G2B), and private sector companies. These stakeholders have interests and power that can influence the outcome of the Inter-Organizational Information System (IOIS) implementation [ 9 ]. Under the assumption of information system (IS) as a socio-technical endeavour, the interplay between the implementation of e-procurement and the public-private sector context is deemed to be challenging [ 55 ]. These implementation challenges should be understood in order to formulate effective strategies to contain them. Furthermore, unlike e-procurement in the private sector context, public e-procurement is expected to reflect public values such as accountability and transparency.

Public e-procurement can be understood as a hybrid of e-government, information systems, and public administration. Thus, it is highly likely that e-procurement challenges are documented in papers published in these different domains. So far, there is a lack of an integrated approach to the synthesis of e-procurement implementation challenges; and when there is an attempt to do so, it is carried out in a rather fragmented manner. Researchers have seldom stepped outside a specific discipline in e-procurement literature reviews. For example, Patrucco [ 43 ] undertook a systematic literature review on public e-procurement, focusing only on papers published in the Journal of Public Procurement. While this provides an initial view of e-procurement, such studies fail to provide a holistic view of the phenomenon given that e-procurement spans works in e-government, information systems, and public administration. To address this shortcoming, this paper offers a systematic approach to synthesizing e-procurement implementation challenges by including publications from the three domains mentioned above. The Technology-Organizational-Environment (TOE) framework [ 50 ] which is popular in studies of adoption and implementation of innovations, will be used to present the e-procurement implementation challenges. The TOE framework [ 50 ] allows the identification of the main factors influencing the adoption and implementation of innovations within different organizational contexts and therefore serves a good starting point for structuring the study – specifically the identification of technological, organizational and environmental challenges constraining e-procurement implementation.

Research Methodology

Research approach.

A sequentially-phased, qualitative systematic literature review approach informed by Okoli [ 39 ] is used in this paper. It is characterized by a sequence of activities starting with article search, followed by practical screening, a full reading of papers, synthesis, and analysis.

Data Collection

A Desktop search of relevant articles was systematically done using a timeline from 2001 to date. Based on Google Scholar, the earliest case studies on public e-procurement were published around the year 2001. Data collection was focused consistently around the aim of the research, and the keywords used were specific to the goal of the study, as shown in Fig.  1 , which depicts the different systematic passes used in the search and selection of relevant articles:

• Basket of eight leading Information Systems (IS) journals: European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Association of Information Systems, Journal of Management Information System, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Journal of Information Technology.
• Given that in several developing countries including those in Africa, e-procurement implementation is an important issue, the top 3 IT4D journals, i.e., Electronic Journal of Information System in Developing Countries (EJISDC), IT for Development and IT for International Development were also searched.
• IS conference proceedings focusing on emerging e-procurement implementation challenges that are found in research-in-progress in the respective afore-mentioned streams. The AIS top 4 conferences (ICIS, ECIS, PACIS, and AMCIS) were searched as well as IFIP conferences.
• Leading top-rated e-government journals consulted were: International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), Journal of E-Government, Journal of e-Governance, Government Information Quarterly
• In public administration stream: the Journal of Public Administration and Public Administration Review were searched.
• The second pass was a backward search after the initial search yielded few papers. The purpose of the second pass was to look for additional relevant conference papers and journal articles in other domains.
• The third pass involved searching for adoption-focused e-procurement papers that were previously eliminated in the first-pass. This pass increased the likelihood of gathering additional secondary data on implementation challenges of e-procurement because some adoption-focused papers were case studies of post-acquisition of e-procurement software and thus were likely to contain facts on e-procurement implementation challenges.

Search and selection of articles (after the fashion of Gunther et al. 2017)

The data corpus, which now stood at 165 articles after the previous process, was subjected to a ‘Practical Screening’ phase to remove irrelevant articles [ 39 ] using a process of inclusion and exclusion criteria. This process required the principal researcher reading the article’s Title, Abstract, Introduction, and Conclusion, as explained in Table  1 . Following the screening, 45 papers were retained for full reading and 34 for the final analysis as shown in Table  2 . After this analysis process, relevant arguments that explain the implementation challenges faced in e-procurement implementation were extracted from the 34 papers. The key arguments were then subjected to thematic analysis in NVIVO. Emergent themes generated from common patterns in the data corpus are shown in Table  3 . These themes were then structured as per the TOE framework [ 50 ] for easier conceptualization.

Table 1.

Screening of papers – exclusion criteria

a Examples of papers that are excluded as part of the screening process

Table 2.

Breakdown of selected articles by publication outlet

a Full length paper read

Table 3.

Empirical findings of public e-procurement implementation challenges

Findings and Discussion

Technological challenges.

Key technological challenges that deserve due attention given that they are tied with human and contextual issues are acceptance and usage issues, disruptive innovation, digital signature, and IT security issues. The remaining ones pertain to the technical aspects of e-procurement, and they are grouped as ‘other technological challenges’ in the discussion below.

Acceptance and Usage Issues.

The findings indicate that acceptance and usage is an important challenge for e-procurement. The reasons were vast, ranging from techno-centric issues to broader dimensions such as dissatisfaction with e-procurement systems that do not meet the needs of users with the consequence of emergence of multiple workarounds [ 37 ]; Lack of user-friendliness of e-procurement [ 5 , 34 ]; Complicated systems [ 5 , 20 ]; Inability to enlist sufficient suppliers in a timely manner to encourage IS use [ 53 ]; The use of technology which is in tension with cultural histories of IT usage, bureaucratic processes and business practices [ 55 ].

Disruptive Innovation.

E-procurement is viewed as a disruptive innovation [ 4 , 35 ] that can drive a radical transformation, thereby uprooting some institutionalized work practices. It may conflict with the slow-to-change culture of G2G stakeholders of e-procurement [ 36 ].

Digital Signature/Electronic Signature.

Costa, Arantes, and Tavarez [ 17 ] found that digital signature, which is mandatory for e-procurement, is complex to use and is costly, whereas Ojha and Pandey [ 40 ] found that the digital signature is a means of excessive security on e-procurement causing exclusion of some suppliers. Beyond these techno-centric aspects, the use of digital or electronic signatures can directly clash with the stakeholders’ values, beliefs, and customs associated with manuscript signatures [ 49 ].

IT Security issues.

Mc cue Roman [ 37 ] found that IT security and authenticity was the major challenge in e-procurement as stakeholders had concerns and demanded more re-assurance with regards to the robustness of the security aspect of the e-procurement platform in terms of IT security measures implemented for access control, backup and recovery [ 22 ].

Other Technological Challenges.

Other technological challenges include amongst others, system integration problems with legacy and suppliers’ systems, which is an important technical issue and is underpinned by the use of different enterprise software systems to handle each stage of the procurement cycle [ 2 , 34 ]; the presence of multi-platforms for tendering which confuse bidders [ 5 ]; excessively complicated systems and; different data formats [ 5 , 17 ].

Organizational Challenges

Organizational issues in e-procurement implementation are interlinked. Lack of a project champion and problems of change management are associated with shortcomings in leadership. Resistance to change is explained alongside other challenges, including departmentalism, major reform through ICT and organizational power and politics.

Stakeholders’ Issues.

Drawing from e-government studies, scholars advocated the importance of sustained engagement of stakeholders in e-government implementation to enhance IS acceptance [ 13 ]. The review findings indicate a lack of stakeholder engagement in e-procurement implementation [ 15 , 33 , 36 ]. Scholars advised implementers to convince stakeholders to get their buy-in to improve IS usage [ 15 , 34 , 52 ].

Leaders’ Behavior.

Williams-Elegbe [ 56 ] argues that public sector leaders often exhibit unethical behaviours which can hamper the implementation of e-procurement. Leaders’ behavior was associated with the failure of past e-government projects [ 25 , 28 ]. Some leaders played overt rationality whilst having buried agendas [ 18 ], and obfuscated the objectives behind e-government to achieve their interests [ 44 ].

Shortcomings in Leadership.

In some cases, public sector leaders are genuinely committed to achieving success in e-procurement implementation, but they may lack leadership skills [ 24 , 34 ] to address change management problems [ 1 , 24 ], and become good project champions which is a critical success factor in any e-government implementation [ 56 ].

Lack of Training and Skilled Personnel.

Inadequate staff training on e-procurement results in low e-procurement usage ([ 17 , 24 , 34 ]). Furthermore, lack of skilled ICT personnel on-site to deal with technical e-procurement issues, service-level agreements, and operationalization of the private-public partnership model of e-procurement implementation are serious impediments to e-procurement implementation ([ 30 , 40 , 46 ]).

Resistance to Change.

Resistance to change is a significant e-procurement implementation challenge with multiple underlying causes. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) resist to e-procurement because they require equitable access to government business [ 55 ]. Besides, the reforms driven through e-government projects often conflict with reforms prescribed in public policies which follow the New Public Management (NPM): Somasundaram [ 46 ] found that centralization ideas underlying e-procurement, conflicted with the decentralization ideology [ 46 ] which challenged the norms of Danish local authorities; while Barca and Cordella [ 6 ] found that e-procurement faces departmentalism challenges which are perceived as a strong cultural and organizational barrier [ 6 ]. Resistance to change is also grounded in organizational power and politics [ 2 ] that shadowed the benefits of e-procurement: purchase managers were unwilling to use e-procurement despite agreeing with the economic arguments of cost-saving, and reduction of direct procurement costs related to the new e-procurement platform [ 29 ].

Value-Driven Outcome.

Unlike the private sector, implementation of public e-procurement is expected to reflect public values of transparency, integrity, and accountability [ 6 , 37 , 53 ]. If the government expects e-procurement to enforce accountability and transparency for good governance, implementation will be called a success when stakeholders make sense of these public values and embrace them, which is indeed challenging to achieve.

Environmental Challenges

E-procurement implementation yielded different outcomes in different countries, with varying success in Italy, Australia and, Scotland [ 55 ] but failure in Turkey whereby expected results of increased competition and lower procurement prices were not achieved [ 27 ]. Regulatory frameworks, SME issues, and the country context are among the key environmental challenges that have been found as relevant in this review.

Regulatory Framework.

Public procurement regulatory frameworks may present significant challenges in e-procurement implementation [ 21 , 29 , 57 ], the most pertinent ones being the mandated use of e-procurement; and the laws governing the use of digital signatures which limits the participation of SMEs in government bids.

SME Issues.

The difficulties that SMEs face with respect to e-procurement and public procurement process are amongst others: exclusion of SMEs [ 17 , 54 ]; SME lack of investment in ICT infrastructure [ 3 , 27 ]; lack of financial capabilities and contract guarantees as needed by government procurement; insufficient competence in terms of standards and technical qualifications set by the market [ 41 ]. The business context of a country, therefore, poses a challenge to the success of e-procurement implementation especially if SMEs make a substantial contribution to the GDP. In Turkey, exclusion of SMEs negatively affected competition in the market and caused a rise in prices which ran contrary to the proclaimed expectations from public e-procurement implementation [ 27 ].

Country Context.

The federal-state dynamic, especially in big countries has been found to be a key challenge for e-procurement [ 46 ], whereby the best practices underlying the success of e-procurement in a specific state were not replicated to other states as it could compromise the degree of autonomy of the other states. Considering cultural challenges, some developing countries continue with corrupt practices despite e-procurement because corruption has become entrenched in the culture. Overt and covert corruption has become the norm in these countries [ 56 ]. It is challenging to achieve the expected objectives of e-procurement, i.e., transparency, accountability and curbing corruption.

Other Country-Related Challenges.

E-procurement which is a G2B e-government project and is based on e-commerce technology, faces similar country-context challenges of e-government implementation in developing countries such as poor ICT infrastructure, language barriers, impact of local customs, norms and national culture, lack of financial instruments such as debit/credit card to facilitate e-commerce [ 11 , 32 ]. These contextual challenges are beyond the scope of this review but are directly relevant to e-procurement.

The key e-procurement implementation challenges are interlinked, as presented under the TOE typology [ 50 ] in Fig.  2 . The arrows indicate the relationship between the key challenges identified and discussed in this study.

Inter-relationship of key e-procurement implementation challenges

This study aimed to synthesize and examine the implementation challenges to public e-procurement. A multi-disciplinary qualitative systematic literature review was done based on papers published in the e-government, information systems and public administration domains. The study identified (1) technological challenges of acceptance and usage, e-procurement as a disruptive innovation and technical issues with e-procurement; (2) organizational challenges of stakeholders’ issues, leadership, inadequate training, and skilled personnel, resistance to change and value-driven outcome and (3) key environmental factors of procurement regulatory framework, the country context and, the problems faced by SMEs. These findings enlighten practitioners and policy implementors with information on the possible hindrances to successful e-procurement implementation. Building upon this awareness, future studies can embark on explaining the causal mechanism of these challenges and how best to address them in a context-specific manner. This research work focused on e-procurement implementation challenges as a whole and excluded challenges pertaining to specific e-procurement processes such as e-tendering and e-reverse auction. The proposed framework in this paper can be used in future case studies to examine e-procurement implementation challenges under each focus area of the TOE [ 50 ] and their relationship.

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Advent of information technology (IT) has provided more competitiveness in business operation. Construction industry is also gearing up towards the more usage of information technology driven platform. Cost is the main factor for construction industry. Construction Industry Development Council of India (CIDC) has estimated that approx. 40-50% cost belongs to material in total building project. Therefore, it is imperative to optimize the material purchasing in construction activities. E procurement has emerged as panacea to address most of the problemscost saving, time saving and best quality, minimization of malpractices associates with purchasing. We have reviewed 103 research papers from various countries and collated the adoption practices of e procurement. Interestingly TOE and TAM model has used by many of researchers.

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Advent of information technology (IT) has provided more competitiveness in business operation. Construction industry is also gearing up towards the more usage of information technology driven platform. Cost is the main factor for construction industry. Construction Industry Development Council of India (CIDC) has estimated that approx. 40-50% cost belongs to material in total building project. Therefore, it is imperative to optimize the material purchasing in construction activities. E procurement has emerged as panacea to address most of the problems-cost saving, time saving and best quality, minimization of malpractices associates with purchasing. We have reviewed 103 research papers from various countries and collated the adoption practices of e procurement. Interestingly TOE and TAM model has used by many of researchers.

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E-Procurement is a veritable tool for increasing efficiency, productivity and faster project delivery in construction industry practice. However, despite the administrative and managerial benefits obtainable by the adoption of e-procurement, public organizations are slow in their approach to its adoption due to their exposure to the technology application in that regards. Thus, this research aim to assess the state of readiness of government construction organization to adopt e-procurement in order to establish their responds to information communication technology innovations with a view to enhancing continuous efficiency in service delivery. Questionnaire and literature review were use as sources of data, where by the factors either for or against e-procurement adoption were identified and established. From the research findings, majority of the response shows lack of awareness and lack of experienced partners. However, the management is aware of its benefits to construction indus...

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Although the uptake of e-Procurement technologies and processes by businesses and organizations has been very impressive in the developed countries, the same cannot be said in many developing countries where the uptake of e-Procurement is rather slow and low. This study investigated the barriers to the uptake of e-Procurement using data derived from a questionnaire survey of 213 consulting firms, contractors, client organizations and government establishments in the Nigerian building industry (NBI). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, factor and multiple regression analyses. The result shows that the two factors with the most significant adverse effect on the uptake of e-Procurement were the high investment cost, and lack of technical expertise required in setting up e-procurement technologies and processes. Difference between how the researchers and practitioners understood the barriers to the uptake of e-Procurement was observed. Technical, infrastructure, politic...

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Information technology (IT) has been widely applied in many industrial sectors in order to increase their profit, competitiveness, and to reduce unnecessary costs. In line with the Global Scenario, the procurement concept is also moving ahead from traditional manual paper-based to electronically-based due to improvement in the Internet. Electronic procurement (e-procurement) has been widely adopted in various industrial sectors across the Globe, and as such various aspects of its adoption has been researched. Construction material procurement is one of the most important sections in the construction project life cycle. The possibilities afforded by E-Procurement are evident, but the level of implementation and penetration was not as expected within the construction industry compared to other industrial sectors. The potential benefits for construction are suggested by the E-Procurement accomplishments in other industries. Yet the adoption of e-procurement in the Construction Industry is not as widespread, especially in Kuwait and other GCC countries in Middle East Region, and accordingly there has been limited research into the factors affecting the adoption of e-procurement, within this context. Consequently, this study, which has been undertaken with quantitative survey questionnaires on supplier's dimensions, aims to add to current published literature, and in particular provide an understanding of the relationship between the factors identified which have affected adoption of e-procurement for Construction Industry and Material Suppliers in Kuwait.

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The benefits of e-business have been widely promoted but the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector has lagged behind other sectors in the adoption of e-procurement. The prospective benefits for the AEC sector are suggested by the proven advantages of general e-procurement where adoption has been faster and deeper. However, several studies indicated that barely 20% of documentation is tendered electronically, suggesting there are barriers to e-procurement. In order to promote adoption of e-procurement in the AEC sector, it is important to establish the status of the industry and identify the drivers as well as barriers to e-procurement. This chapter provides a detailed discussion of the state of the industry and its drivers and barriers while ranking these according to its importance. It acts as a reference guide to allow those implementing e-procurement in construction to make informed decisions as to where to focus their efforts to achieve successful realisation ...

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Construction Industry is evolving amid the fourth industrial revolution. Transportation, commerce, manufacturing and many other industries ripened the current technological advancement and are striving to utilise every development in the IT sector. The procurement of construction works is known to be very conventional and backward in the adoption of digitalisation. The construction industry's procurement and supply chain are blamed for the most inflated cost of construction projects, mainly attributed to a lack of transparency and trust between the industry stakeholders. This research explores the challenges of e-procurement adoption in the industry and identifies the potential opportunities for its usage. This investigation's data are acquired through interviews, and the data are analysed using qualitative content analysis. This study reveals compounding challenges (i.e., corruption and lack of commitment) that lead to the failure of such efforts in Nigeria and the potential prospects (i.e., transparency and efficiency). This study is essential in developing a more effective and transparent process of procurement so that the Nigerian construction industry is not be left behind in the fast-digitalising markets.

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