The aim of this paper is to link the concept of green public procurement (GPP) to the nowadays popular circular economy (CE) concept by exploring the possibilities of circular public procurement. The legal framework will be specified at all stages of the suggested procurement cycle (preparation, tendering, execution, monitoring) and the connected instruments that support GPP will be summarized. In the research, ecolabelling and life-cycle costing will be highlighted as tools leading to Circular Public Procurement (CPP), drawing attention to the importance of ensuring competition and cooperation with market actors using these tools.

Construction projects are frequently used to boost local economic development without consideration of the long-term sustainability impacts. Via implementing circularity approach in public procurement, the research sought to identify best practices for greening construction projects by conducting in-depth interviews with stakeholders to collect their views about green public procurement (GPP) criteria in an EU country. The paper demonstrates how circular public procurement can be implemented for construction projects and which phases of procurement are more promising in terms of minimizing environmental impacts. Our results show that the design and build phases should be procured separately in order to successfully reduce environmental impacts in circular construction projects. The planning phase should ideally be carried out by an interdisciplinary team that establishes the right green public procurement criteria for selecting the designer, the construction firm and developing technical specifications.

The purpose of this article is to examine the digitalization practices of logistics service providers from a sustainability point of view by qualitative methods. Four case studies are introduced in detail and the results suggest that digitalization projects have a rather positive effect in terms of economic sustainability. The environmental performance is not significantly changed, but the CO2 emissions can be reduced. Regarding social issues, digitalisation projects do not affect the number of employees, the projects introduced in the paper rather help companies deal with the current workload of employees and secure a more efficient and creative working environment. A cikk célja, hogy bemutasson négy, logisztikai szolgáltatók körében fellelhető digitalizációs projektet, valamint elemezze ezek fenntarthatóságra gyakorolt hatását kvalitatív kutatási módszerek segítségével. Négy esettanulmányt ismertet a cikk, melyek eredményei azt mutatják, hogy a digitalizációs projekteknek pozitív hatásuk van a fenntarthatóság gazdasági dimenziójára. A környezeti teljesítmény nem változik számottevően, de a CO2 kibocsátás jelentősen csökkenthető. A társadalmi fenntarthatósági dimenziót tekintve a digitalizációs projektek a jelenlegi kutatás alapján nincsenek hatással a munkavállalók számára, inkább a jelenlegi munkavállalók terhelését hivatottak csökkenteni, valamint biztonságosabb és kreatívabb munkakörnyezet biztosítása a céljuk.

Versenyképesség Kutatások Műhelytanulmány Sorozat