Achieving Managerial Values Through Green Procurement

This article examines green procurement in relation to classic managerial values of public administration in the United States, including effectiveness, efficiency, and economy. The article considers these relations from two frames. First, the article examines green procurement as an administrative tool, that is, as an approach to acquiring the goods and services needed by public organizations and officials to accomplish their respective missions. Second, the article considers green procurement as a policy tool for promoting environmental quality objectives. The article draws on a broad but largely anecdotal body of international evidence on green procurement to argue that in both instances green procurement can accomplish managerial values.