Vulnerability to corruption in public procurement review system

• Author: Ketrina Çabiri Mijo
• Pages: 50-55

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Vol. 3 No. 2

September, 2017

Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-759X

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

Methodology

A case study research

Inasituationwheretheresearchquestionfocusesonwhyquestionstheresearchers

has no control over the behaviour and it tries to investigate contemporary events as

opposed to historical events, the case study strategy is the most appropriate one for

this research1ThusthisresearchisbasedonasinglecasestudystrategyAsBenne

andElmanpidentifysinglecasestudiesareimplicitlycomparative

deviant mostlikelyleastlikely In this context this study presents a leastlikely

caseswhich isatoughtestthat positsthetheorywhereit is unlikely to provide

good explanation. Considering the fact that Albania presents the most corrupted case

inEuropeintermsofpublicprocurementsystemthelogicofLevyaboutthe

leastlikelycaseastheSinatrainferenceifatheorycanmakeithereitcanmakeit

anywhereisapplicabletothisresearchonAlbanianPPRS

Single case analysis can therefore be valuable for the testing of theoretical

propositions, provided that predictions are relatively precise and measurement error

islow Levy Thustherst part ofanalyses provides atheory testing

approach through a case study method. PPRS in Albania presents a theoretical puzzle

withinthePAtheorywhenactorsshiandmutateMoreoverPPRSinAlbaniaisan

exampletoshow thatPrincipalAgentTheorycannotfullyexplainPPRS inAlbania

thus it become a case to support the gap in the literature by bringing together PA and

Capture theory.

Datacollectedforthepurposeofthisstudyincludeadescriptivecomparisonbetween

PPRSincountrieswithinandoutsideEuropeanUnionwhichsharethemostsimilar

backgroundwithAlbaniaBenchmark of Member States are usedto identify best

practices.

SemistructuredInterviewswithocialsatPPSnationalandlocallevelexpertsin

theeldofpublicprocurementnongovernmentalorganisationsprivatesectorand

academiawereconducted

Why Albania and PPRS

TheoreticalPuzzle

AlbanianPPRSrepresentastudycase whichchallengePrincipalAgentPAtheory

explanatorypowerintwoways

a- Theabsenceofmonitoringandcontrolmechanismtoweaken theagencyconict

and increase its performance towardtheobligationsofthecontractwithinthePPRSin

Albania is out of the context of PA theory.

b- Moreover, in the case of PPRS in Albania, the PA theory doesn’t explain the

roleof actors when it comes to theinuenceofgroups of interests thus Principal

AgentTheory does not explain the whole picture of selective decision making in

PPRS in Albania. Public Procurement System in Albania become a case to support the

gap in the literature by bringing together PA model and Capture theory

Empiricalpuzzle

PublicProcurementReviewSysteminAlbaniapresentsacasethatisnotsuciently

studied in the literature of bureaucracies and decision making and this study brings

1 Robert K. Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Second Edition, SAGE Publications, London