SPRI supports transdisciplinary research that is solutions- and impact-oriented.
SPRI is a hub for individuals engaged in sustainable purchasing research, as well as a source of research opportunities for students passionate about working on sustainable purchasing and sustainable consumption. Examples of SPRI research follow.
Research reports – Advancing green purchasing in local governments
The Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative is an international research partnership on sustainable purchasing. SPRI is leading a groundbreaking study on sustainable purchasing policies and initiatives in local governments. This innovative research conducts a global survey of city managers in decision-making positions to learn more about the successes and limitations of sustainable purchasing. This survey has now been implemented across municipalities in Australia, Italy, Japan, and Mexico. Our extensive reports will help you understand what works for local cities and municipalities that have implemented sustainable purchasing policies.
Research Papers – Sustainability in government
- A framework for understanding sustainable public purchasing
- Social procurement: Addressing a critical void in public procurement.
- Estimating the true size of public procurement to assess sustainability impact
- E-procurement system adoption in local governments: The role of procurement complexity and organizational structure
- Sustainability policy objectives, centralized decision making, and efficiency in public procurement processes
- How do external conditions affect the design of local governments’ sustainability strategies?
- Implementation of sustainable public procurement in local governments: a measurement approach
- All are not created equal: Assessing the design features of local sustainability programs
- Eco-helping and eco-civic engagement in the public workplace
- Environmental purchasing in the City of Phoenix
- Going green in public organizations
Research Papers – Sustainability in business
- Business as a collaborative partner: Understanding firms’ socio-political support for policy formation
- Green technology firms and sustainable public purchasing
- Is ISO 14001 a gateway to more advanced voluntary action? The case of green supply chain management
- Strategic alliance formation and structural configuration
- Sustainability in constrained economic times
- Sustainable supply chains and regulation
- Transnational climate governance and the Global 500
- Two are better than one: The link between management systems and business performance
- Which corporate sustainability activities are associated with greater financial payoffs?
- Which types of environmental management systems are related to greater environmental improvements?
Research Papers – Ecolabel research
- Are consumers willing to pay for circular products? The role of recycled and second-hand attributes, messaging, and third-party certification.
- Can ecolabels influence firms’ sustainability strategy and stakeholder behavior
- Institutional design of ecolabels: Sponsorship signals rule strength
- Third-party certification, sponsorship and consumers’ ecolabel use
- Market segmentation of consumers based on their actual sustainability and health-related purchases
- Why consumers buy green
Research Papers – Sustainability in practice
- Using e-procurement systems to accommodate multiple sustainability objectives.
- Do multiple sustainability objectives affect the speed of local procurement processes?
- Estimating the true size of public procurement to improve sustainability.
- Collectivists, individualists and indifferents: What the different types of consumers mean for the market for sustainable and healthy products
- Environmental purchasing in the City of Phoenix
- Five practices to help cities green their purchasing
- Going green on purchasing: Eight practices to reduce environmental impacts
- Green technology firms and sustainable public purchasing
- How cities are addressing climate change through sustainable purchasing
- Making government spending sustainable
- Report to the ASU staff council’s sustainable purchasing guidelines subcommittee
- U.S. cities buy-green schemes, reduce their environmental liabilities and costs
- Want a successful sustainable purchasing policy? Six policy elements that cities should know
Australia
- Protecting the environment one government purchase at a time
- 7 ways Australian municipalities can increase the success of their sustainable purchasing policies
- Green purchasing policy adoption in Australian municipalities
- Sustainable purchasing implementation success in Australia
Italy
- Five actions to advance green purchasing in Italian municipalities
- Why are Italian municipalities adopting green purchasing policies?
- Increasing green purchasing success in Italian municipalities
Japan
- Eight actions to advance green purchasing in Japanese municipalities
- Why Japanese municipal governments buy green products
- Japanese green purchasing implementation success