doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4_S1-P17-cd
A Conceptual Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Project Procurement
Aliza A. Hassim, Stephen Kajewski and Bambang Trigunarsyah
School of Urban Development, Faculty of Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
ABSTRACT
There is a lack of research which identifies the role of the public-sector client in relation to
ethical practice in plan procurement. This paper discusses a conceptual framework for ethical
decision making in project procurement, focusing on public sector clients within the Malaysian
construction industry. A framework is proposed to ensure that effective ethical decision making
strategies are deployed to ensure that plan procurement is carried outwith a transparent process
so that the public sector clients are able to adopt. The conceptual framework adopts various
factors that contribute to ethical decision making at the early stage of procurement and consists
of the procurement system, individual factors, project characteristics, and organizational
culture as the internal factors and professional code of conduct and government policies as the
external factors. This framework rationalizes the relationships between systems, psychology
and organizational theory to form an innovative understanding of making ethical decisions in
plan procurement. It is expected that this proposed framework will be useful as a foundation
for identifying the factors that contribute to ethical decision making focusing on the planning
stage of procurement process.
Keywords: Procurement, Plan procurement, Ethics, Ethical issues, Governance, Transparency, Accountability, Decision making.
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