The university announced the honor on Jan. 4. In a press statement, it said the study had been published a few months ago in the Journal of Public Procurement, the leading publication for the profession.
It examined the literature published on the subject since the beginning of public procurement research between 1984 and May 2022. The analysis included 640 publications by 1,247 authors from the Scopus international research database.
According to the study, the most significant researcher is Andrei Yakovlev from Harvard University, with Michael Essig from the Bundeswehr University in Munich in second and Helen Walker from Cardiff University in third.
Tátrai is 10th on the list and the second most influential female researcher in the field. She has been a professor and researcher at Corvinus University since 1997. Tátrai is currently a professor at the Department of Supply Chain Management of the Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences, co-chair of the professorial board, a public procurement expert of the European Commission’s Electronic Public Procurement Working Group, and a member of the Public Procurement Authority of Hungary since 2019.
The article also names the most significant organizations in the “institutional cooperation network for public procurement research,” including Corvinus University of Budapest, which is involved in both EU Horizon and Hungarian OTKA projects in this research area.
Research into public procurement is influential as the field accounts for around 12% of a developed country’s GDP and can cover up to 70% of government spending, according to recent figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The study, led by Abderahman Rejeb, found that public procurement research has grown exponentially since 2009, although institutional collaboration is fragmented. The analysis also identified the five most typical directions of public procurement research, namely innovation, corruption, sustainability, contracts, and small and medium-sized businesses, which have been part of the curriculum of the Corvinus public procurement management program for several years.
Corvinus University of Budapest bills itself as Hungary’s leading economics and social sciences university. Its medium-term goal is to become Central Europe’s best higher education institution in these fields. Corvinus University says it has almost 10,000 scholars, including 2,000 international students. It has close links with 200 partner universities worldwide. It is regularly ranked high in global higher education rankings, with its Masters in Business and Management ranked first in the region by Eduniversal in 2019. Its Masters in Leadership and Organization course has seen it listed among the top 100 business schools in the world by the Financial Times. Corvinus says it is the only university in Hungary with two international institutional accreditations: the U.K.-based Association of MBAs and the U.S.-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International.
This article was first published in the Budapest Business Journal print issue of January 12, 2024.
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