ART - State-Business Relations and Participation of Firms in Public Procurement in Russia: An Empirical Study JoPP 2012

The document is a research paper that examines the relationship between enterprises and authorities in the context of public procurements in Russia. The paper presents empirical data collected from a survey of 957 top managers of manufacturing enterprises in 2009. The survey aimed to understand the extent to which public procurements are combined with direct financial or organizational support of enterprises as tools for stimulating demand. The paper provides descriptive statistics on the sample of enterprises, including their location, size, industry, and ownership structure. Additionally, it explores the membership of these enterprises in business associations, revealing that 59.9% of the surveyed enterprises were not members of any business association. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the differences between firms that participated in supplying government needs in 2008 and those that did not. The analysis reveals significant differences between these two groups of firms. The paper concludes with the main results of the regression analysis, which shed light on the relationship between enterprises and government branches in the context of public procurements. Overall, the research aims to contribute to the understanding of state-business relations and the participation of firms in public procurement in Russia.