The Green Public Procurement in the midst of the economic crisis: is it a suitable policy tool?

Figures & data

Figure 1 Research framework.

Figure 2 Educational level of respondents.

Figure 3 The size of sampled firms.

Table 1 Variable description.

Variable	Description	Mean	SD
ENVIPRO	The importance of environmental problems	4.88	0.94
EURODIR	The knowledge of the European Guides of green purchasing	2.49	1.49
ENVISTR1	The knowledge about EMSs	2.27	1.32
ENVISTR2	The knowledge about eco-label	2.33	1.4
ENVISTR3	The knowledge of energy saving criteria	3.04	1.37
ENVISTR4	The knowledge of GPP To°lkit	1.5	0.91
ENVISTR5	The knowledge of national action plan of GPP,	1.64	1.049
SUPO	The dependence to public procurement	1.4	0.49
PEPO	The percentage of dependence; 1 ( < 25%), 2 (25–50%), 3 (>50%)	1.3	0.61
BROGO	The public authority sector	1.7	0.93
ENVICRI	The environmental criteria in the public contracts	1.53	0.5
PEENCR	The environmental criteria percentage in the public contract; 1 ( < 5%), 2 (5–25%), 3 (>25%)	1.77	0.77
IMMOTIV1	The public resources saving	3.54	1.26
IMMOTIV2	The decrease of carbon footprint	3.62	1.14
IMMOTIV3	The decrease of environmental impacts	4.13	1.06
IMMOTIV4	To meet the demand of environmental awareness consumers	3.77	1.08
IMMOTIV5	To compliance with GPP requirements	3.82	1.01
IMMOTIV6	To compliance with environmental legislation	3.94	1
IMMOTIV7	To create new innovations	3.76	1.19
IMMOTIV8	To promote green products by public authorities	3.61	1.32
IMMOTIV9	To take subsidies	3.98	1.17
IMMOTIV10	To make good working conditions	3.94	1.02
IMMOTIV11	The existence of environmental criteria in public contracts	3.81	1.1
IMMOTIV12	The harshness of environmental criteria in public contracts	3.86	1.17
IMMOTIV13	The improvement of corporate profile	4.17	0.89
CRITERIA1	The recycle materials	3.92	1.12
CRITERIA2	The energy saving devices	4.29	0.96
CRITERIA3	The biological products	3.9	1.1
CRITERIA4	The use of renewable energy	4.3	1.03
CRITERIA5	EMS-certified suppliers	3.9	1.01
CRITERIA6	Eco-labelled furniture	3.7	1.1
STRADO1	Environmental awareness of staff	4.05	1.06
STRADO2	Suitable environmental educational programmes	4.08	1
STRADO3	Third party environmental certification	3.93	1
STRADO4	The consumers awareness regarding environmental products	4.26	1
STRADO5	Web-based platform to promote environmental products	4.11	1.04

Table 2 Public dependence firms (SUPO).

Nationality	Yes	No	Total
Greek managers	56.4	43.6	100
Cypriot managers	62.2	37.8	100

Table 3 Percentage allocation of private sales (PEPO).

	< 25%	25–50%	>50%	Total
Greek managers	81.8	9.1	9.1	100
Cypriot managers	75	17.9	7.1	100

Table 4 The influences of environmental policy tools on managers behaviour.

Nationality/type of managers	Variable	U	p
Greek managers/EA	IMMOTIV1	17.5	0.045
Greek managers/EA	IMMOTIV3	89	0.009
Greek managers/PD	IMMOTIV4	9	0.018
Greek managers/EA	IMMOTIV6	13	0.024
Greek managers/EA	IMMOTIV7	12	0.019
Greek managers/PD	IMMOTIV8	12	0.032
Greek managers/PD	IMMOTIV9	8	0.014
Greek managers/EA	IMMOTIV12	13.5	0.025
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV1	113.5	0.038
Cypriot managers/PD	IMMOTIV2	4	0.037
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV3	76.5	0.021
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV10	107.5	0.045
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV11	26	0.017
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV12	89.5	0.014
Cypriot managers/EA	IMMOTIV13	107	0.047

Figure 4 The educational background and the significance of motivations. ^*ES, environmental studies; EcS, environmental economic studies. ^**The scores are calculated as average of respondents scores (five-point Likert scale).

Table 5 Governmental supportive policies.

Nationality^a/type of managers	Variables	U	p
Greek managers/PD	STRADO3	72	0.014
Greek managers/PD	STRADO4	84.5	0.035
Greek managers/PD	STRADO5	69	0.018

a Greek and Cypriot managers.

Figure 5 The educational background and importance of environmental strategy. ^*ES, environmental studies; EcS, environmental economic studies. ^**The scores are calculated as average of respondents scores (five-point Likert scale).

Table 6 Environmental criteria.

Nationality^a/type of managers	Variables	U	p
Greek managers/PD	CRITERIA4	118	0.035
Greek managers/EA	CRITERIA1	94	0.086
Greek managers/EA	CRITERIA2	87.5	0.046
Greek managers/EA	CRITERIA3	81	0.032
Greek managers/EA	CRITERIA5	74	0.017
Greek managers/EA	CRITERIA6	84	0.043
Cypriot managers/EA	CRITERIA1	24	0.017
Cypriot managers/EA	CRITERIA2	77	0.014
Cypriot managers/EA	CRITERIA3	78.5	0.002
Cypriot managers/EA	CRITERIA4	104.5	0.009
Cypriot managers/EA	CRITERIA5	92	0.007

a Greek and Cypriot managers.

Figure 6 Educational background and importance of green criteria. ^*ES, environmental studies; EcS, environmental economic studies. ^**The scores are calculated as average of respondents scores (five-point Likert scale).