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A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 35(10), 547-561

This article evaluates the objectives of the legal framework on public procurement in the European Union and evaluates its contribution to the internal market. A critical analysis of the public procurement acquis's evolution is set out, which reveals... Read More about A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU.

The International Procurement Instrument: a device to protect or to equalise the playing field. (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (in press). The International Procurement Instrument: a device to protect or to equalise the playing field. The Company Lawyer,

European and British companies face restrictions in accessing markets in third countries. The purpose of the IPI Instrument, as a commercial policy instrument, is to restrict access to the EU internal market, including the area of public contracts, f... Read More about The International Procurement Instrument: a device to protect or to equalise the playing field..

State aid and the evolution of transport law (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). State aid and the evolution of transport law. e-Competitions Antitrust Case Laws e-Bulletin, Article 116819

The evolution of transport law in the European Union has been in synchronous mode with the application of state aid
acquis in the relevant sectors, which has an exceptional character. Although in general conformity with the broader remit of state ai... Read More about State aid and the evolution of transport law.

Damages in Public Procurement: Triple Damages Claims Available for Breaches of Public Procurement Law (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). Damages in Public Procurement: Triple Damages Claims Available for Breaches of Public Procurement Law. European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, 19(2), 104-109. https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2024/2/5

The Remedies Directives leave Member States with a wide discretion as to the creation of the appropriate forum to receive complaints and legal actions against decisions of contracting authorities and utilities, as well as action for damages in public... Read More about Damages in Public Procurement: Triple Damages Claims Available for Breaches of Public Procurement Law.

The ten-year anniversary of public procurement reforms: a critical assessment of the European Union public procurement Directives (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. H. (2024). The ten-year anniversary of public procurement reforms: a critical assessment of the European Union public procurement Directives. ERA-Forum, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-024-00798-5

This article evaluates the objectives of the legal framework on public procurement in the European Union and assesses its contribution to the internal market. The author provides for a critical analysis of the evolution of the public procurement acqu... Read More about The ten-year anniversary of public procurement reforms: a critical assessment of the European Union public procurement Directives.

The affirmation of Public Private Partnerships as modality for delivering public services: The incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 into domestic legal systems. (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). The affirmation of Public Private Partnerships as modality for delivering public services: The incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 into domestic legal systems. European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, 19(3), 174-190. https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2024/3/5

Concessions and public private partnerships are contractual agreements that are characterized by their high value, complexity, and long-term nature. The key elements of these agreements include granting the concessionaire the right to utilize and ben... Read More about The affirmation of Public Private Partnerships as modality for delivering public services: The incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 into domestic legal systems..

Partnerships: its importance in the development of Iraq (2023)
Thesis
Al-Jabori, M. A. Partnerships: its importance in the development of Iraq. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4443557

This doctoral thesis comprehensively examines the multifaceted challenges faced by Iraq in its ongoing post-war reconstruction and development phase after the US invasion in 2003. A significant impediment to progress lies in the pervasive lack of rob... Read More about Partnerships: its importance in the development of Iraq.

The Nature and Character of the Public Markets and Their Effects on Public Procurement in the European Union (2022)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2022). The Nature and Character of the Public Markets and Their Effects on Public Procurement in the European Union. Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 31(4), 9-27. https://doi.org/10.17951/sil.2022.31.4.9-27

The regulation of public procurement in the European Union focuses on the internal market and its function in accordance with the fundamental freedoms. It aims at installing a behaviour for the public sector which is similar dynamics to the function... Read More about The Nature and Character of the Public Markets and Their Effects on Public Procurement in the European Union.

Conceptualizing political campaign messaging in an election - the case study of the 2016 presidential election in Ghana (2022)
Thesis
Adutwum, S. Conceptualizing political campaign messaging in an election - the case study of the 2016 presidential election in Ghana. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4247155

Political campaign messaging is acclaimed as one of the three critical success factors in winning a competitive election. With Ghana’s virtual two-party political system, formulating attractive campaign message for election becomes imperative. This s... Read More about Conceptualizing political campaign messaging in an election - the case study of the 2016 presidential election in Ghana.

An examination of the motivations for the foreign acquisitions of the local banks : a case study of the Egyptian banks (2021)
Thesis
Abdel-Aziz, H. A. M. (2021). An examination of the motivations for the foreign acquisitions of the local banks : a case study of the Egyptian banks. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223512

Opposite to the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, where there were several foreign banks joint ventures and branches of foreign banks established; the initial years of 2000s, in particular, between 2005-2010, had witnessed of established a wave of foreign banks M... Read More about An examination of the motivations for the foreign acquisitions of the local banks : a case study of the Egyptian banks.

Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices (2021)
Journal Article
Onyoin, M., & Bovis, C. H. (in press). Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices. Administration and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211030516

Despite the multiple stakeholder-centered complexities involved, the public–private partnership (PPP) modality is increasingly the vehicle of choice for the provision of public services in the developing world. This article asks how PPPs might overco... Read More about Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices.

Power and trust : analysis of the effects of deglobalisation and financial technology in the United Kingdom, United States and European Union (2021)
Thesis
Hayes, C. J. (2021). Power and trust : analysis of the effects of deglobalisation and financial technology in the United Kingdom, United States and European Union. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224417

This thesis researched the effects deglobalisation and financial technology are having on the United Kingdom, United States and European Union since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Particular attention is paid to financial services, as it is... Read More about Power and trust : analysis of the effects of deglobalisation and financial technology in the United Kingdom, United States and European Union.

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Onyoin, M., & Bovis, C. (2021). Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective. The International journal of public sector management, 34(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-01-2020-0026

Purpose: This paper explains the evident disproportionality in the levels of adoption of the modality of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in Uganda by tracing the peculiar preconditions and enablers of the model's relative high adoption in the elec... Read More about Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective.

Public sector (PS) procurement : improving the outcomes of procurement (2020)
Thesis
Addy, S. N. (2020). Public sector (PS) procurement : improving the outcomes of procurement. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222789

The UK public sector spends approximately 12.5% of GDP buying goods and services. Failures in procurement activity are not uncommon. The economic shock of 2008 and now the consequences of Covid-19 mean that preventing failure with better value for mo... Read More about Public sector (PS) procurement : improving the outcomes of procurement.

Post contractual governance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) : an institutional analysis of a Ugandan case (2020)
Thesis
Onyoin, M. (2020). Post contractual governance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) : an institutional analysis of a Ugandan case. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222614

There are significant indications that Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model of organization will continue to gain prominence and usability in the provision of public services and in the development, operation and maintenance of public infrastructur... Read More about Post contractual governance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) : an institutional analysis of a Ugandan case.

The effect of leadership on corporate governance through the integration of corporate social responsibility : perspectives from the boards of directors and chief executive officers of the Libyan commercial banks (2019)
Thesis
Alshaikh, K. A. (2019). The effect of leadership on corporate governance through the integration of corporate social responsibility : perspectives from the boards of directors and chief executive officers of the Libyan commercial banks. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222383

Corporate Governance (CG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and leadership have become such related concepts that each concept is a supplement and/or a complement to the other. CG, for example, has come to govern the principle-agent relationship... Read More about The effect of leadership on corporate governance through the integration of corporate social responsibility : perspectives from the boards of directors and chief executive officers of the Libyan commercial banks.

Utilities procurement: the state of play before Brexit (2019)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2019). Utilities procurement: the state of play before Brexit. Utilities Law Review, VOL 23(1), 18-27

Utilities procurement resembles commercial procurement practices and its regulation provides many deviations from the Public Sector Procurement Directives. Utilities procurement regulation is different from public sector procurement regulation and it... Read More about Utilities procurement: the state of play before Brexit.

Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector (2019)
Thesis
Nguyen, T. D. E. (2019). Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221597

The main objective of this research is to investigate factors affecting customer loyalty of different supermarket strategic groups, as the term of strategic groups in the grocery sector appears to have been ignored by most researchers and the topic o... Read More about Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector.

Systemic risk in major public contracts (2018)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, K., Williams, T., Bovis, C., & Merali, Y. (2019). Systemic risk in major public contracts. International Journal of Forecasting, 35(2), 667-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2018.10.005

This paper presents a novel approach to the characterisation of “systemic risk” in the context of public sector procurement and contracting. We argue that contemporary risk management practices in project and programme management exhibit a number of... Read More about Systemic risk in major public contracts.