Abstract
The aim of the PhD research is to create (1) a theory of systemic corruption in the public procurement and (2) a qualitative explanatory model for understanding and explaining of how systemic corruption in public procurement works. The research is in contradiction to economic papers which tend to concentrate on the search of quantified relationships between openness and transparency in public procurement and corruption.
Initially a concept of the research is based on recent cases of public procurement in the Czech Republic and on the included occurrence of attributes of systemic corruption - such as informal structures as the self-imaged bodies of decision-making, collusive deals etc. The research is carrying out via judicial cases, collecting and analysis of public procurement's data (ISVZUS), in-depth interviews with insiders and experts and qualitative analysis of documents and materials.