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Despite a rather long history of bureaucratic public administration, Iranian public sector has failed to catch up with the ever developing knowledge of fighting corruption in “public procurement”, a critical field of governmental management which accounts for at least 15 percent of GDP around the world. While international organizations like TI and OECD have been broadly active in globalizing the standards of integrity and calling for improvements in the national frameworks of procurement, a reductionist agenda might take the safest path of change by following whatever prescribed by those international bodies. However, there have also been some deeper reflections on the complexities of...