Corruption in International Business

The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-83801-4 (ISBN)

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International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas. As a result, it can often be difficult to discern corruption against what may be a different set of cultural norms. In this book, Sharon Eicher examines corruption as it pertains to the business sector

It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening, dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas. Corruption in International Business presents a broad range of perspectives on how corruption can be defined; the responsibilities of those working for publicly traded companies to their shareholders; and the positive influences that corporations can have upon combating international corruption. The authors differentiate between public and private sector corruption and explore the implications of both, as well as methods for qualifying and quantifying corruption and the challenges facing policy makers, legal systems, corporations, and NGOs, as they seek to mitigate the effects of corruption and enable cultural and social change.

Sharon Eicher is a Ph.D. in Development Economics (2002). Other degrees include B.A. in Political Science and Master's degrees in Islamic Societies, Central Asian Languages & Cultures, and Economics. She has taught Business and Economics courses at KIMEP in Kazakhstan and was Chair of the Department of Business and Economics at Bethel College in Newton, Kansas, in the USA. She now teaches at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, as an Associate Professor of Economics. Sharon has been studying and traveling to the former Soviet Union since 1989. She lived and worked in Kazakhstan for several years where she met with advocates for small business development, befriended many business professionals in the commercial center of Central Asia, Almaty, and developed her understanding of corruption.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: What Corruption is and Why it Matters

Government for Hire

When Shareholders Lose (or Win) through Corruption

The Good and Evil Faces of Foreign Investment

Quantifying the Immeasurable

Critiquing the Indicators of Corruption and Governance

Corruption in Chinese Sports Culture

Exploring Corruption in the Petroleum Sector

Risk Management – Playing By the Rules

Changing the Rules: How the Transition Economy of Kyrgyzstan is Reformin Public Corruption

An Institutional Approach to Understanding Corruption in BRIC Countries

Private-Sector Incentives for Fighting International Corruption

Conclusion

Appendix I

Appendix II

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Corporate Social Responsibility
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-032-83801-9 / 1032838019
ISBN-13	978-1-032-83801-4 / 9781032838014
Zustand	Neuware