Abstract
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in all post-socialist countries in the market transition. However, among these countries, the Czech Republic stands apart with its incredible entanglement of corruption, politics and business.
Although corruption on the firm-level in the Czech Republic is heavily critized, the results of our in-depth interviews conducted with 6 Czech SMEs showed that almost every firm encountered some form of corruption and even used corruption for either increasing their sales, helping the negotiations, or fostering their production. Our results demonstrate the possible kinds of corruption behavior in Czech firms.
This might be useful for designing various state interventions that might influence the system change and market development in CEECs and both directly and indirectly influence the volume of corruption.