Fighting and preventing corruption requires therefore an
understanding of the social, political and economic realities that
prevail in particularly settings, viewed from an interdisciplinary,
multidimensional, and a multi country perspective. It also requires
scholars to distinguish between different types of corruption,
ranging from petty bribery to system-wide state capture through
networks of interconnected players. In this book we seek to address
these challenges and contribute to an interdisciplinary and more
pluralistic view of the corruption phenomena.
The book is divided in three parts. The first part presents a
comprehensive, theoretical and empirical framework of corruption.
Specifically, the first chapter overviews the literature on
economic growth and corruption, presenting a bibliometric account
of the main research contributions in the field. The second
chapter, using a sample of 122 countries in the period 1990-2006
demonstrates, in a setting where the relation between globalization
and corruption is non-linear, that Sub-Saharan African countries
suffer more seriously from globalization.
Part II, encompasses the in depth analysis of several countries,
ranging from middle corrupted contexts (Portugal Chapter 3), to
highly corrupted countries such as Serbia (Chapter 4), Russia
(Chapter 5), Thailand (Chapter 6) and China (Chapter 7), this
latter viewed from the perspective of firms from a very low
corruption country (Finland).
In Chapter 3, the authors demonstrated that grand corruption is
associated with the organizational context, which enables specific
practices and which elicits negative judgments, whereas petty
corruption is associated with structural factors, above all,
poverty, which also triggers specific practices. Generally, and
adopting a more psychological and sociological perspective the
authors show that in a middle corrupted context (Portugal),
corruption is associated with cultural specificities (i.e.
complacency), personality traits related to individualistic values,
and criminal personalities.
A more institutional and legal perspective is adopted in Chapter
4 where the author describes various forms of political corruption
related to political party funding and their particular features in
post-transitional countries. Moreover, numerous cases from Serbian
practice in the area of financing of political parties are
illustrated, being uncovered the need of monitoring by free press
and of having an informed civil society. Still in a
post-transitional country context, Chapter 5 provides evidence of
corruption in public procurement in Russia. The author treats the
hypothesis of buyer's quasi-corruptive behavior: the bona fide
contracting authority is trying to limit the competition in the
favor of the selected supplier but for avoiding the risks which
stems from the application of English auction for purchasing of the
differentiated goods."
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