ART - Public Procurement Specialists: They Are Not Who We Thought They Were 2015

The document is a list of references and citations from various sources related to public procurement and organizational stress. The document includes references to books, journal articles, and reports on topics such as multivariate data analysis, role conflict and ambiguity, public procurement, personality scale validity, social outcomes in public procurement, e-procurement, market demand and innovation, psychometric theory, integrity in public procurement, sources of innovation, coefficient alpha and composite reliability, measures of personality and social psychological attitudes, the mental revolution of the public procurement specialist, public policy and financial management through e-procurement, the politics of bounded procurement, public procurement in the United States, technology-based small firms and regional innovation potential, reconciling competing values in public administration, theory of role accumulation, the usefulness of Cronbach's alpha, administrative discretion and active representation, competitive tendering and contracting public sector services, and advancing public procurement. The document also includes a survey instrument with statements related to public procurement specialists' everyday experiences. Additionally, the document mentions the commitment of the author to management objectives and their effort to reflect the most current managerial perspectives in their work.