Assessing and measuring the extent of organization-level policy implementation has received little scholarly attention, especially in the areas of local governments' procurement and environmental protection. To rectify the paucity of research in this area, this paper adopts Leonard-Barton's (1988) conceptualization of the misalignment between the (policy) innovation and the organization and draws on an original survey of local government finance, environment and public works departments in a representative sample of US cities with at least 25,000 residents to develop a strategy for measuring the extent of the implementation of a sustainable procurement policy (SPP) in local governments.,The authors demonstrate through the construction of a composite index that in order for a SPP to be fully implemented, standards and rules, routines and decision-making criteria need to exist to reconcile any technical, infrastructural and decision-making misalignments between the new policy and an organization's pre-existing norms and routines.,The authors empirically assess and demonstrate that the paper's proposed composite measure of policy implementation is robust to multiple specifications and measurement reliability and construct validity tests.,Whereas the existing literature from political science and policy science has tended to focus on higher levels of implementation in government through a complex hierarchical system, this paper underscores the importance of the policy implementation at the organizational level. Moreover, the authors contribute methodologically by our development of a strategy to measure the extent of the implementation of a SPP by local governments.

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在地方政府中实施可持续公共采购：一种衡量方法

评估和衡量组织级政策实施的程度在学术上很少受到关注，特别是在地方政府的采购和环境保护领域。为了纠正这一领域的研究的不足，本文采用了伦纳德·巴顿（Leonard-Barton，1988）对（政策）创新与组织之间不对等的概念化，并采用了对地方政府财政，环境和公共工程部门的原始调查。具有至少25,000名居民的美国城市的代表性样本，以制定战略来衡量地方政府中可持续采购政策（SPP）实施的程度。作者通过构建综合指数进行了论证，以制定SPP全面实施的标准和规则，需要制定常规和决策标准，以调和新政策与组织先前存在的规范和常规之间的任何技术，基础设施和决策失调。作者凭经验评估并证明了本文提议的政策实施综合措施对于多种规格和度量可靠性以及构造效度检验具有鲁棒性。尽管政治学和政策学方面的现有文献都倾向于通过复杂的等级系统关注政府更高水平的实施，但本文强调了政策实施的重要性在组织一级。而且，