| dc.description.abstract | Public sector institutes inherently
suffer from the information asymmetries,
extra time and cost penalties, corruption,
transparency issues, anti-competition, and
too much documentation with utmost human
interventions in traditional paper-based
procurement practices. Recently, the
Government of Sri Lanka induced public
sector institutions to embrace electronic
procurement (e-procurement) adoption for
their procurement practices. E-procurement
is revolutionary digitization of the public
procurement process. Despite the potential
benefits, a high percentage of public
institutions as well as small and mediumscale construction companies in developing
countries often slow to adopt e-procurement
processes. However, its advanced
applications are less prevalent even in
developed countries. Hence, the study
attempted to analyze the factors influencing
the adoption of e-procurement for the public
sector Works in Sri Lanka within the
limitation of Works procurement practices of
the XYZ public sector educational institute. A
mixed method was used to carry out the
research. At the outset, a detailed literature
review was conducted and identified people,
technology, internal organization, and
external environment as key e-procurement
adaptation variables. Moreover, three
structured interviews accompanied to
demystify the literature review findings
concerning the Srilankan context. Finally, a
detailed questionnaire survey was
conducted among a population consist of 70
respondents by following the census
procedure and 72.9% of them were
responded. Descriptive statistics were used
to analyze the data with the support of SPSS
software. According to the overall result of
the analysis, ‘Technology’ was realized as the
most significant factor which considerably
influenced e-procurement implementation
for XYZ public sector institute in Sri Lanka. | en_US |
