Public Procurement for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will bring together a selection of papers addressing theoretical and operational approaches to assess and improve public procurement in the context of sustainability. Research papers should address the multiple dimensions of public procurement as a strategic approach contributing to sustainability and innovation objectives through: 1) a public policies perspective; and/or 2) the perspective of involved organisations.

The covered topics include conceptual definitions and framings of public procurement for sustainability, theoretical/operational models and methodologies, the identification of key factors and challenges in public procurement, measurement tools for assessing the impact of public procurement for sustainability, principles and tools guiding the design of public procurement strategies and processes for sustainability, public procurement and (green) innovation, environmental, social and economic aspects of public procurement, risk management, intellectual property and long-term changes, among others.

Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of the research results, developments and applications.

Prof. Paula Antunes
Dr. Paula Trindade
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.