Corruption in emerging countries: A matter of isomorphism

Bertrand Venard ()
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Bertrand Venard: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School

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Abstract: This paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption in emerging countries. A questionnaire was administered in face-to-face interviews with top executives in firms across various economic sectors in emerging countries. Our findings lead us to conclude that corruption is influenced by coercive, mimetic and competitive isomorphism. This study indicates that the higher the quality of a given institutional framework, the lower the level of corrupt behaviour. Furthermore, we suggest that corruption is explained by mimetism within the same economic sector. We thus conclude that a firm is more likely to resort to corruption if its competitors already adopt corrupt behaviour.

Date: 2009-02
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Published in M@n@gement, 2009, 12 (1), pp.1-27

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