The handbook of business and corruption : cross-sectoral experiences

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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