TY - JOUR TI - Integrating Indigenous enterprises into the Australian construction industry AU - Denny-Smith, George AU - Loosemore, Martin T2 - Engineering, construction and architectural management DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DO - 10.1108/ECAM-01-2016-0001 J2 - Engineering, construction and architectural management SN - 0969-9988 UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ECAM-01-2016-0001/full/html KW - Construction ER - TY - CONF TI - Assessing the impact of Australia's indigenous procurement policy using strain theory AU - Denny-Smith, George AU - Loosemore, Martin T2 - Proceeding of the 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 4 SP - 6 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George-Denny-Smith/publication/331701927_Assessing_the_impact_of_Australia's_Indigenous_procurement_policy_using_Strain_Theory/links/5c88921292851c1df93d590b/Assessing-the-impact-of-Australias-Indigenous-procurement-policy-using-Strain-Theory.pdf KW - Construction ER - TY - JOUR TI - Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people AU - Denny-Smith, George AU - Williams, Megan AU - Loosemore, Martin T2 - Construction Management and Economics DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2020.1795217 VL - 38 IS - 12 SP - 1139 EP - 1157 J2 - Construction Management and Economics SN - 0144-6193 UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01446193.2020.1795217 KW - Construction ER - TY - CONF TI - Barriers to indigenous enterprise in the Australian construction industry AU - Loosemore, Martin AU - Denny-Smith, George T2 - Vol. 2 of Proc., 32nd Annual ARCOM Conf., edited by PW Chan and CJ Neilson DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 SP - 629 EP - 638 UR - https://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/478b6e1487122c6a01fca21e18464930.pdf KW - Construction ER - TY - JOUR TI - The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective AU - Loosemore, Martin AU - Keast, Robyn AU - Alkilani, Suhair T2 - Building Research & Information AB - The construction industry is the primary focus for social procurement policies in many countries. However, there has been little research into the drivers of social procurement policy adoption in this industry. To help address this gap in research, this paper reports the results of semi-structured interviews with fifteen social procurement professionals who are implementing social procurement into the Australian construction industry. Results reveal interesting historical parallels with the implementation of environmental sustainability initiatives. However, social procurement has yet to become normalized. There appears to be a high level of homogeneity in industry practice and while there is considerable scope for innovation, this is constrained by the prescriptive and ‘top-down' nature of social procurement policies in Australia which make it difficult for organizations to respond ‘bottom-up’ to actual community needs. It is concluded that the considerable untapped potential of social procurement policies to create social value currently depends on the intrapreneurial efforts of a small number of emerging social procurement professionals who are individually challenging the many institutional norms and practices which undermine the implementation of these policies into the construction industry. DA - 2023/03/10/ PY - 2023 DO - 10.1080/09613218.2023.2180344 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 0 IS - 0 SP - 1 EP - 13 SN - 0961-3218 ST - The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2180344 Y2 - 2023/05/09/00:57:19 KW - Construction KW - Urban planning ER -