Are Some Forms of Bribery Worse than Others?

Robert McGee and Yanira Petrides ()
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Yanira Petrides: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Chapter Chapter 15 in The Ethics of Bribery, 2023, pp 257-271 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, a survey was distributed to 64 students at a university in Mexico City. They were asked to place a number from 1 to 100 in the appropriate space to reflect their view on the seriousness of 75 acts, where 1 = not serious and 100 = extremely serious. The four bribery scenarios were ranked about in the middle. Paying a bribe when pressured to do so was significantly less serious than the other categories of bribery – offering to pay a bribe, accepting an unsolicited bribe, and soliciting a bribe. The other three categories of bribe were found to be equally serious (p > 0.05).

Keywords: Ethics; Bribery; Survey; Demographic variable; Economic philosophy; Economic sociology; A13; A14; D73; J10; K40; Z10; Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17707-1_15

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