Corruption (Political Science)

Corruption in firms in emerging countries. A matter of isomorphism.

by Bertrand Venard

Reference: Venard, B. (2009). Corruption in firms in emerging countries. A matter of isomorphism. M@n@gement 12 (1): 1-27.

This paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on... more This paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption in emerging countries. A questionnaire was administered in face-to-face interviews with top executives in firms across various economic sectors in emerging countries. Our findings lead us to conclude that corruption is influenced by coercive, mimetic and competitive isomorphism. This study indicates that the higher the quality of a given institutional framework, the lower the level of corrupt behaviour. Furthermore, we suggest that corruption is explained by mimetism within the same economic sector. We thus conclude that a firm is more likely to resort to corruption if its
competitors already adopt corrupt behaviour.

Corruption in firms in emerging countries. A matter of isomorphism.

by Bertrand Venard

Reference: Venard, B. (2009). Corruption in firms in emerging countries. A matter of isomorphism. M@n@gement 12 (1): 1-27.

This paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on... more This paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption in emerging countries. A questionnaire was administered in face-to-face interviews with top executives in firms across various economic sectors in emerging countries. Our findings lead us to conclude that corruption is influenced by coercive, mimetic and competitive isomorphism. This study indicates that the higher the quality of a given institutional framework, the lower the level of corrupt behaviour. Furthermore, we suggest that corruption is explained by mimetism within the same economic sector. We thus conclude that a firm is more likely to resort to corruption if its
competitors already adopt corrupt behaviour.

Organizational Isomorphism and Corruption: An Empirical Research in Russi

by Bertrand Venard

Reference: Venard, B. (2009). Organizational isomorphism and corruption: An empirical research in Russia. Journal of Business Ethics 89: 59-76.

Based on neo-institutional literature, this paper aims to show the influence of organizational isomorphism on... more Based on neo-institutional literature, this paper aims to show the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption. The focus is institutional explanations of corruption. Our model is based on empirical research in Russia at the end of the 1990s. A face-to-face questionnaire was conducted with 552 top executives in private firms across various economic sectors. We used the structural equation model Partial Least Squares, PLS, technique to test our hypotheses. The developed model provides an integrated approach to the study of the relationship between corruption and organizational isomorphism. Our empirical data from firms in Russia allowed us to test various theoretical hypotheses concerning the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption. Our emphasis is on the influence of competitive and institutional isomorphism on corruption.

Organizational Isomorphism and Corruption in Financial Institutions: Empirical Research in Emerging Countries

by Bertrand Venard

Reference: Venard, B., M. Hanafi, M. (2008). Journal of Business Ethics, 81 (2): 481-498.

The globalizations of capital markets in the last 20 years has led to a historic degree of financial integration in... more The globalizations of capital markets in the last 20 years has led to a historic degree of financial integration in the world. It is clear, however, that globalization is not conducive to a complete homogeneity of financial markets and institutions. Among others, one element of diversity is the importance of the impact of corruption in emerging countries. Corruption decreases the credibility of financial institutions and markets.
Scandals and unethical behavior in financial institutions erode confidence in such firms. Relying on neoinstitutional literature, this article focuses on the link between corruption and organizational isomorphism in financial institutions in emerging countries. Therefore, our aim is to examine the institutional reasons for corruption in financial institutions in emerging countries. Our structural equation model is based on empirical research in financial institutions in emerging countries. A questionnaire was administrated to 70 top executives of financial institutions in 18 different emerging countries.

Review - Paul Brass, An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1937 to 1961 (New Delhi, 2011)

by Uday Chandra

Forthcoming in Contemporary South Asia 22 (3), 2012

Fighting corruption in Eastern Partnership countries: views from the civil society

by Polina Panainte

The joint study was prepared within the project “Civil society participation in policies to combat corruption in the Eastern Partnership countries” that is being implemented by International Centre for Human Development (Yerevan), the Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy (Kyiv), Institute for Public Policy (Chisinau) in cooperation with FRIDE (Madrid) with financial support from the Black Sea Trust, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States

This study is intended to shore up the objective of greater civil society involvement in the EaP and the course of... more This study is intended to shore up the objective of greater civil society involvement in the EaP and the course of reforms in eastern partner countries. The key objective of the study is to present the views of civil society on anti-corruption policies and reforms in the Eastern Partnership countries, to give an overview of foreign—including EU—assistance in this area, and to analyse the role and potential of civil society in combating corruption. The report offers a number of recommendations for international donors, CSOs and the EU on how to make their efforts in  assisting anti-corruption reforms in Eastern Partnership countries more effective.

The global ‘order’, socioeconomic status and the economics of African identity

by Caroline Kamau

Kamau, C. & Rutland, A. (2005).

Chronic elitism within Africa has created a two‐tier milieu in which those Africans who are in a position to take... more Chronic elitism within Africa has created a two‐tier milieu in which those Africans who are in a position to take advantage of the global economic system often do so at the expense of other Africans. The effects of social class and indicators of individual economic mobility on African identity were thus examined. 213 Kenyans participated in this questionnaire‐based study for structural equation analysis. The main finding was that socioeconomic status (SES) positively predicts individual economic mobility, which then negatively influences African identity concepts, and that the significance of economic concepts for African identity depends on social class. For example, in the high SES group, materialism and cynicism about Africa's future economic global prospects were found to have a negative effect on commitment to the national economy and African identity. The general implication is that anti‐group economic behaviour in Africa (e.g. corruption, worker exploitation) is attributable to individual mobility, as well as to intra‐national and global economic structures.

Corrupção, cultura e política na Índia

by Mirian Ribeiro de Oliveira

Boletim 'Observatório da Ásia', nº 2, 2012. Laboratório de Estudos da Ásia da Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Keywords: Corruption; culture; politics; India; Social movements. 2011. Keywords: Corruption; culture; politics; India; Social movements. 2011.

Bento, Paulo (2011), “Corrupção - II”, INVEST, I. 87, Mar., p. 41.

by Paulo Bento

(2007) Avances y obstáculos en el fortalecimiento del Estado en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: un análisis de la capacidad institucional, la reforma de la administración y la gestión pública.

by Eloisa del Pino

Madrid: INAP. (Con CÉSAR COLINO,  IGNACIO MOLINA y SALVADOR PARRADO).

El trabajo abarca a siete países (Centroamérica y República Dominicana) y atiende a cuatro ámbitos en los que se han... more El trabajo abarca a siete países (Centroamérica y República Dominicana) y atiende a cuatro ámbitos en los que se han centrado las actuaciones de reforma administrativa en los Gobiernos Centrales. A) Apoyo a la profesionalización del servicio civil. B) Apoyo a las reformas institucionales de las estructuras administrativas. C) Mejora de los sistemas de diseño y ejecución de políticas públicas y servicios públicos. D) Mejora de la legitimidad del sistema mediante la lucha contra la corrupción. En cada uno de estos ámbitos se ha analizado los avances y las herramientas en materia de modernización administrativa y sus condicionantes políticos y técnicos en la década de los noventa y de principios de este siglo.
Se ha pretendido realizar un análisis sistemático, tanto exhaustivo como comparativo, de los programas de reforma acometidos por las administraciones centrales de estos países.

Political Corruption in Germany and the Wulff affair

by Arcadius Pulito

Brief description of the reluctance of German authorities to fight political corruption, by example of the affair involving former German president Christian Wulff.

Corruption in Greece - Summary of my paper

by Arcadius Pulito

This is a summary of my paper "The never-ending Greek Tragedy" on corruption in Greece, also on Academia.edu

An independent corruption fighting body for South Africa

by Pierre Vos

Glenister judgment; Scorpions; Hawks; South African Police Service Act

This paper discusses the South African Constitutional Court case of Glenister v President of the RSA 2011 (7) BCLR 651... more This paper discusses the South African Constitutional Court case of Glenister v President of the RSA 2011 (7) BCLR 651 (CC), a judgment which decalred invalid those sections of the South African Police Service Act which abolished the Scorpions corruption fighting unit and created The Haws, a less independent and robust unit investigating "priority crimes". It then engages with proposed amendments to the Act which purportedly will give effect to the Constitutional Court judgment, concl;uding that the proposed amendments do not comply with the Constitutional Court judgment.

Left Terrorism in Bengal : A Personal Recollection (Bengali Version)

by Pathik Basu

How power corrupts human relations, humanity - we observed during Left regime, 1977 - 2011. I am not in such saying... more How power corrupts human relations, humanity - we observed during Left regime, 1977 - 2011. I am not in such saying that all the leftists are exponents of corruption, some were corrupt, some got trapped unknowingly, some protested against the corruption of power. For example, Professor Santosh Bhattacharya was a leftist but the evil fraction of the Left party did not accept him as Vice-chancellor of Calcutta University as he was very protective about the glory of University and was not ready to compromise with that under any circumstances. Professor noticed how mediocre partisans pressured the entire Bengal’s educational system and once-renowned Calcutta University is nearing the desertion by some 'gentle, babu' miscreants. Professor wrote the book - RED HAMMER OVER CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. I was a researcher in Science during 1982 – 1984, just at the juncture when decay of that Institution got started. Politically I was involved with alternative-leftism, where real Marx (I believed) will be our guide. Prof Bhattacharya had seen the end of the glory of the University and I faced the beginning of the practice of corruption and nepotism in the same University. This writing belongs to that period (1977 – 1984) with a high-hope that true humanity must blossom over the world.

Bento, Paulo (2012), "Corrupção - I”, INVEST, I. 86, Mar., p. 41

by Paulo Bento

Korruption vor Gericht. Die Fälle Francis Bacon (1621), Warren Hastings (1788-95) und der Strukturwandel bei der Bewertung politischer Delinquenz in England, in: Korruption. Historische Annäherungen an eine Grundfigur politischer Kommunikation, hrsg. v. Niels Grüne / Simona Slanicka, Göttingen 2010, S. 307-326.

by Andre Krischer

Corruption in Greece

by Arcadius Pulito

The never-ending Greek tragedy. A paper on the role of Greece in the Euro crisis in 2011,  the colossal proportions of corruption in Greece and the shocking inability and unwillingness of the Greek political class to address the issue.

Greece at the origin of the EU debt crisis

Why Greece is the most corrupt country in Europe
more Greece at the origin of the EU debt crisis

Why Greece is the most corrupt country in Europe

Constantly failed reform plans

Greece's three options

Corruption as Power: Caste and the Political Imagination of the Postcolonial State

by Jeffrey Witsoe

Everyday Corruption and the Political Mediation of the Indian State: An Ethnographic Exploration of Brokers in Bihar

by Jeffrey Witsoe

Party Systems, the Selection and Control of Politicians and Corruption

by Alisa Voznaya

Co-authored with Dr. Petra Schleiter. Working paper.

This paper examines why democracy and electoral competition can sometimes fail to secure clean government in the... more This paper examines why democracy and electoral competition can sometimes fail to secure clean government in the interest of the people. Our argument is that party system features, which shape the effectiveness of elections as tools to select and control politicians, play a critical and overlooked role in conditioning the scope for corruption. We conceptualise governmental corruption as a classical principal-agent problem for voters, which is mediated by the extent to which party systems enable the electorate to select politicians who are likely to curb corruption and to hold accountable those who do not. We test this argument through a controlled comparative analysis of corruption in 80 democracies around the world and find broad support for our hypotheses.