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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Emerald handbooks in business and management
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Emerald handbooks in business and management.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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? |
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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. |
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Case 4. Same culture -- different legitimacy: the case of business organizations in China. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Business ethics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Business ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Assländer, Michael S., editor.
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Hudson, Sarah, 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aßländer, Michael S. Handbook of Business and Corruption : Cross-Sectoral Experiences. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2017 9781786354464 |
| ISBN |
9781786354457 (electronic book) |
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1786354454 (electronic book) |
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