Theoretical Trends in Risk Management in Sustainable Public Procurement: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Scopus and Web of Science Databases

Abstract

Risk Management (RM) has become an instrument to mitigate several variables that affect government procurement in the course of its sustainable procurement process. This article aims to point out theoretical trends from a bibliometric study of the main works on Risk Management in Sustainable Public Procurement (RMSPP) regarding the number of publications per year, number of citations per author and countries that deal with this theme the most, in addition to identify the most relevant authors in the researched topic. To this end, searches were carried out in the scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science covering the years 2010 to 2020, identifying a total of 89 works for bibliometric analysis through the bibliometrix package of the Software R Studio. Thus, this work has its relevance in contributing to the analysis of the evolution of studies on risk management in sustainable public procurement, which is still in its infancy in the literature, since the bibliographical research reveals that there are few works in the academic field that apply the concept of management. risks to public procurement. This survey reveals that interest in risk management in public procurement grew by 540% between the years 2010 and 2020. However, future research may qualitatively analyze the international bibliographic portfolio, in order to systematically review which risk categories most affect the supply chain due to the adoption of sustainability criteria in public procurement.