E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure
基于400多个城市的调查数据，研究了采购复杂性和组织结构如何共同影响地方政府采纳电子采购系统，发现集中式结构促进采纳，而协调式结构则降低采纳可能性。
The article examines how local governments’ procurement complexity and structure interact to influence e-procurement adoption. Drawing on the survey data of over 400 cities, we find that a centralized structure enhances the likelihood that local governments adopt an e-procurement system to cope with the increasing procurement complexity; while governments with a coordinated structure are less likely to adopt e-procurement as they can rely on the intra-organizational collaboration and information-sharing embedded in the structure to accommodate complex procurements. The findings shed insights on how local governments with different structures can best deal with complex managerial activities and facilitate e-procurement adoption.