4th International Conference of Public Procurement 2010, South Korea
27 Jul 2009
The 4th International Conference of Public Procurement (IPPC2010) will be hosted by the Korean Public Procurement Service in Seoul, South Korea, August 26-28, 2010.
Call for Paper/Panel Proposals: Towards a New Horizon in Public Procurement
The Korean Public Procurement Service will allocate a substantial budget to support this conference, which is also co-sponsored by various organizations including The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (USA), The World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, Consip (Italy), the Naval Postgraduate School (USA), The U.S. General Service Administration, PrAcademics Press (USA), Florida Atlantic University, etc.
With these various sources of funding, the Organizing Committee plans to: increase dollar values and number of best paper awards, cover travel and hotel expenses of selected paper presenters from developing countries, provide complimentary meals for the entire conference period, and provide free transportation from airport and conference hotels.
The 4th Conference aims to extend and deepen the topics of major interests that arose from the previous conferences (see http://www.ippa.ws), by selecting theoretical, empirical, practical and institutional contributions on a variety of topics.
Call for papers (150 word limit) that focus on, but are not limited to:
• Public procurement and economic recession: public procurement as an economic stimulation tool, initiatives, and problems;
• Globalization and harmonization in public procurement policy and practices;
• Public procurement and institutions (law, politics, public finance);
• Public procurement capacity building, assessment and reforms);
• Public asset management and disposals and public procurement;
• Public procurement and project management;
• Procurement and innovation (new technologies, e-procurement, firms' investments in R&D/innovation);
• The role of standards in procurement markets;
• Accountability and transparency (preventing corruption, ethical codes) in public procurement;
• Competition and procurement (impact on SMEs, competitiveness, antitrust);
• Procurement processes and performances;
• Public tendering (procedures, auction design);
• Handling socio-economic concerns in public procurement policies (environment, employment, SMEs);
• Administration of public procurement (structures, policies, centralization, decentralization);
• Corporate governance models and public procurement;
• Public procurement professionalization; and
• Lessons learned (case studies).
PANEL PROPOSALS
Panel proposals for very current themes will be welcomed. The panel proposers are responsible for inviting experts in those specific themes. Each panel should have three papers, a panel chair and a discussant. For example, there will be a panel on public asset management: a comparative perspective (each panelist presents his/her country's asset management system). Proposals should include the themes and names of panelists and panelists’ paper titles.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
There are three best paper awards, with $5,000 for the 1st best paper, $3,000 for the 2nd best paper, and $1,000 for the 3rd best paper. In addition, there may be awards for students' and practitioners' best papers.
SUBMISSIONS:
Proposals should be submitted electronically to http://www.ippc2010.kr before August 31, 2009. Full papers shall be submitted before March 1, 2010.
Nine selected papers will be published in two special issues of the Journal of Public Procurement and 20 selected papers will be published in an edited book, Towards a New Horizon in Public Procurement. According to our IPPC tradition, copies of these publications will be ready for distributions at the conference. The Korean Public Procurement Service will send a complimentary copy to central procurement offices of all nations in the world. Moreover, all papers presented at the 4th IPPC will be posted at our IPPC website (http://www.ippa.ws).
For further information about paper proposals, abstracts and full papers, please feel free to contact: Mr. Kang-Il Seo of the Korean Public Procurement Service at kangilseo@korea.kr .
Further information on practical arrangements (accommodation, booking etc.) will be posted shortly at http://www.ippc2010.kr.
