Decorticating corruption: an institutionalist study using SEM modeling and data from the World Values Survey

Paula M. Almonacid-Hurtado, Giovanny H. Gómez Convers and Sergio A. Castrillón-Orrego

Chapter 20 in The Elgar Companion to International Business and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2026, pp 394-407 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Comprehending the relationship between social values and corruption has become increasingly urgent and significant. What is corruption? Why does it happen? Which behaviors are not acceptable? Which are desirable? How do they manifest in daily life? The World Values Survey (WVS) serves as a crucial data source to study social values in multiple contexts. Among the possible prisms, it is worth analyzing how corruption could be fostered, for example, in relation to bribery tolerance, which has not been sufficiently explored. This study examines underlying patterns in response clusters using an institutionalist framework to systematically analyze them. Seeking to unveil the most significant causalities and influences in the relationship between social values and corruption – through robust data analysis, imputation techniques, dimensionality reduction, clustering analysis, and SEM modeling – we identify the main factors influencing the acceptance of bribery. The results demonstrate that the three pillars of institutionalism provide a useful approach to studying corruption, articulating a comprehensive set of quantitative methods capable of including multiple variables, components and indicators.

Keywords: Corruption; Bri UMAP; SEM; K-Means; Clustering; World values survey; Global compact SDGs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035348473
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