Sustainable Procurement Process:
A Case Study at a Public Higher
Education Institution in Brazil
Juliany Helen das Graças Pinto and Marcell Mariano Corrêa Maceno
1 Introduction
Concerns about environmental issues have increased in companies as a result of
mismanagement between economics and environmental impact of these organizations (Maceno et al. 2018).
Concerns about environmental issues have increased in companies as a result of
mismanagement between economics and environmental impact of these organizations (Maceno et al. 2018).
In the eighteenth century, with the industrial revolution, the production model
had several changes in the production-customer-economy relationship (Jesus and
Chrispino 2015; Curi 2012). These changes include the adoption of a circular flow
system, where the products and services generated by companies are consumed
by people in order to obtain revenue (Coelho et al. 2013). During the twentieth
century, an industrial boom provided economic growth never experienced before
and was supported by important people of that period, such as Henry Ford, Frederick
Taylor, Max Weber, among others (Curi 2012). Consequently, people consumed more
as a result of increased purchasing power. However, the excessive consumption of
products led to an excessive consumption of natural resources (Maceno et al. 2018;
Maceno and Pawlowsky 2014; Leonard 2010) In other words, the impact on nature
has been intensified as a result of increased production.
The pressure on the environment enhanced, because the circular flow economic
model was reductionist, which means that the economy was an isolated and ideal
system (Coelho et al. 2013). However, any system needs material and energy that,
J. H. das Graças Pinto · M. M. C. Maceno (B)
Department of Production Engineering (UFPR), Francisco Heráclito dos Santos Street 100,
Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: marcell.maceno@gmail.com
J. H. das Graças Pinto
e-mail: julianyhelen.adm@gmail.com
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A Case Study at a Public Higher
Education Institution in Brazil
Juliany Helen das Graças Pinto and Marcell Mariano Corrêa Maceno
1 Introduction
Concerns about environmental issues have increased in companies as a result of
mismanagement between economics and environmental impact of these organizations (Maceno et al. 2018).
Concerns about environmental issues have increased in companies as a result of
mismanagement between economics and environmental impact of these organizations (Maceno et al. 2018).
In the eighteenth century, with the industrial revolution, the production model
had several changes in the production-customer-economy relationship (Jesus and
Chrispino 2015; Curi 2012). These changes include the adoption of a circular flow
system, where the products and services generated by companies are consumed
by people in order to obtain revenue (Coelho et al. 2013). During the twentieth
century, an industrial boom provided economic growth never experienced before
and was supported by important people of that period, such as Henry Ford, Frederick
Taylor, Max Weber, among others (Curi 2012). Consequently, people consumed more
as a result of increased purchasing power. However, the excessive consumption of
products led to an excessive consumption of natural resources (Maceno et al. 2018;
Maceno and Pawlowsky 2014; Leonard 2010) In other words, the impact on nature
has been intensified as a result of increased production.
The pressure on the environment enhanced, because the circular flow economic
model was reductionist, which means that the economy was an isolated and ideal
system (Coelho et al. 2013). However, any system needs material and energy that,
J. H. das Graças Pinto · M. M. C. Maceno (B)
Department of Production Engineering (UFPR), Francisco Heráclito dos Santos Street 100,
Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: marcell.maceno@gmail.com
J. H. das Graças Pinto
e-mail: julianyhelen.adm@gmail.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_4
61