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The handbook of business and corruption : cross-sectoral experiences /

The Handbook of Business and Corruption provides an overview of corrupt business practices in general and, more particularly, in different industry sectors, considering such practices from an ethical perspective.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Assländer, Michael S. (Editor ), Hudson, Sarah, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald handbooks in business and management.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; The Handbook of Business and Corruption Cross-Sectoral Experiences; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Explaining and Preventing Corrupt Practices; Chapter 1 What is Organizational Corruption?; Introduction; A History of Definitions; A General Definition; Iterations of Corruption; Parsing the General Definition; Beyond the General Definition; Definitions Matter; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2 Corruption: Maximizing, Socializing, Balancing, and Othering; Introduction; The Corrupt Agent and the Structure; Organizational Theories of Corruption.
  • The Philosophy of Corruption: From Corruption to CorruptionsThe Psychoanalysis of Corruption; Conclusion and Implications; References; Chapter 3 Petty Corruption
  • Facilitating Payments and Grease Money; Introduction; The Features of Facilitating Payments; The Ethics of Facilitating Payments; The perspective of the person who receives the payment; The perspective of the person who pays; Other arguments on facilitating payments; The Fight against Petty Corruption; Legislative treatment of petty corruption; The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).; The OECD Convention.
  • The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)The U.K. Bribery Act (BA); The European Union; The role of business organizations and civil society in combating facilitating payments; The role of companies; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 The Impact of Disguised Bribes
  • Distorting the Basic Functions of Gift-Giving Practices; Introduction; Disguised Bribes, Bad Faith, and the Project-to-Be-Oneself (Sartre); The Cultural Function of Gift-Giving, as Distorted by Corrupt Practices; The structuring/functional analysis of culture (Malinowski).
  • Disguised bribes are distorting the cultural function of gift-giving. the phenomenon of guanxiThe Social Function of Gift-Giving, as Distorted by Corrupt Practices; The social and moral import of culture (Durkheim); Disguised bribes are distorting the social and moral import of gift-giving; The Communicational Function of Gift-Giving, as Distorted by Corrupt Practices; Communication as the exchange of truth claims (Jaspers); Disguised bribes are distorting the communicational function of gift-giving; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Nepotism and Cronyism as a Cultural Phenomenon?
  • IntroductionWhy are Nepotism and Cronyism Universal? The Resources and Benefits; Why Nepotism and Cronyism are not Tolerated: the Disadvantages; From Tolerated to Unacceptable Practice
  • The Tipping Point; Culture, Nepotism, and Cronyism; Case 1. Nepotism and cronyism in the US; Egalitarianism, Nepotism, and Cronyism; Case 2. Egalitarianism, nepotism, and cronyism
  • the case of Namibia; Case 3. Nepotism and cronyism
  • in developing and developed economies; Universalism versus Particularism, Cronyism, and Nepotism.
  • Case 4. Same culture
  • different legitimacy: the case of business organizations in China.