Sustainable Procurement Practices and Organizational Performance of the County Governments in Kenya

Abstract

This study’s aim was to determine the influence of sustainable procurement practices on organizational performance of the county governments in Kenya. The research had two objectives namely; to establish the level of adoption of sustainable procurement practices by the county governments in Kenya and to determine the correlation amongst sustainable procurement practices and organizational performance of the county governments in Kenya. The methodology adopted was descriptive design and primary data assembled through questionnaires which were administered by electronic mails. The population was made up of all the 47 county governments in Kenya and thus census was carried out as per the small population. Analysis of objective one was realized through descriptive statistics while objective two was analyzed through regression analysis. The outcome shows that economic procurement practices were adopted to a large extent whereas ecological procurement and social procurement practices were adopted to a moderate extent by the county governments in Kenya. The results established that economic and ecological procurement practices has a positive and significant relationship with organizational performance and they influences organizational performance. Social procurement practices were found to have no influence on the organizational performance of the county governments in Kenya. Since ecological, social and economic procurement practices have been found to influence cost, timeliness and service delivery, it is recommended that the county governments adopt the said practices to a very large extent to enhance organizational performance. The researcher suggests that further research can compare sustainable procurement practices with either financial, supply chain performance or competitiveness to ascertain if the same outcome will be yielded.