Evaluating social procurement: a theoretically informed and methodologically robust social return on investment (SROI) analysis of a construction training initiative developed to reduce the risk of youth homelessness in Wales

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Construction Management and Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI:10.1080/01446193.2023.2267140

Jemma Bridgeman, Martin Loosemore

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AbstractDespite widespread claims about the benefits of social procurement, there is little robust evidence that emerging social procurement policies are achieving their intended outcomes. Addressing this gap in research, this paper presents a case study of a theoretically informed and methodologically robust evaluative social return on investment (SROI) analysis of a construction training initiative developed in Wales to reduce the risk of youth homelessness. Utilising Sen and Nussbaum's Capability Empowerment Approach, the results contribute to social procurement research by providing much needed empirical legitimacy to an under theorised field. Ensuring that new social procurement initiatives developed by the construction industry are theoretically and empirically sound is critical to ensure they are transparent, robust, testable, reliable and replicable in achieving the social outcomes they purport to deliver.Keywords: Social procurementsocial valuesocial impactsocial return on investment (SROI)employmentyoung peoplehomelessnesscorporate social responsibility Data availability statementThe participants of this study did not give written consent for their data to be shared publicly, so due to the sensitive nature of the research supporting data is not available.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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评估社会采购:对一项旨在减少威尔士青年无家可归风险的建筑培训倡议进行了理论了解和方法上强有力的社会投资回报分析

摘要尽管社会采购的好处得到了广泛的宣传，但很少有强有力的证据表明新兴的社会采购政策正在实现其预期的结果。为了解决研究中的这一差距，本文提出了一个案例研究，对威尔士为减少青年无家可归风险而开展的一项建筑培训倡议进行了理论了解和方法稳健的评估性社会投资回报(SROI)分析。利用Sen和Nussbaum的能力赋权方法，结果有助于社会采购研究，为理论不足的领域提供急需的经验合法性。确保建筑行业制定的新的社会采购倡议在理论上和经验上都是合理的，这对于确保它们透明、稳健、可测试、可靠和可复制，以实现其声称要实现的社会成果至关重要。关键词:社会采购社会价值社会影响社会投资回报率(SROI)就业年轻人无家可归企业社会责任数据可得性声明本研究的参与者没有书面同意公开分享他们的数据，因此由于研究的敏感性，无法获得支持数据。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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期刊介绍： Construction Management and Economics publishes high-quality original research concerning the management and economics of activity in the construction industry. Our concern is the production of the built environment. We seek to extend the concept of construction beyond on-site production to include a wide range of value-adding activities and involving coalitions of multiple actors, including clients and users, that evolve over time. We embrace the entire range of construction services provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sector, including design, procurement and through-life management. We welcome papers that demonstrate how the range of diverse academic and professional disciplines enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological and/or empirical insights into the world of construction. Ultimately, our aim is to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction sector as a topic of research. While we expect papers to have strong theoretical positioning, we also seek contributions that offer critical, reflexive accounts on practice. Construction Management & Economics now publishes the following article types: -Research Papers -Notes - offering a comment on a previously published paper or report a new idea, empirical finding or approach. -Book Reviews -Letters - terse, scholarly comments on any aspect of interest to our readership. Commentaries -Obituaries - welcome in relation to significant figures in our field.