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This paper examines the relationship between organizational form and the potential for corruption in two polar opposite … study two types of corruption - collusion, where crooks try to bribe officials in order to pass bad projects, and extortion … organizational culture - "competitive" culture, where officials monitor each other and pressure each other to behave honestly, and …
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Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance …-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public … instead the adoption of values-based ethics programs and practices to reduce corruption. (This abstract is not in the original …
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How does law change society? In the rational actor model, law affects behavior only by changing incentives and information-the command and coordination function of law. Under the view that humans are social animals, law is also a guidepost for social norms that regulate behavior-the expressive...
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I investigate how students from different cultures form risk-sharing networks when they come to study at university, and how these network structures affect risk attitudes in different contexts. Using an online survey, I find that students from collectivist cultures such as China form larger...
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in Hungary, this paper examines how culture influences environmentally conscious behaviour. Having investigated the … direct impact of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on pro-environmental behaviour, we found that the culture of a country hardly … culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making a country greener …
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Mediation as a ‘preemptive discipline’ is introduced with relevant theories and research, including from psychology and business studies.The paper is contemporary descriptive using a conflict that is very present in modern discussion: The sustainability of nature in contrasted with business...
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cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
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Recent work on Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. This paper uses the new experiment to validate the alternative way of measuring trust and honesty from questionnaires. Comparisons of wallet return rates and...
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culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …
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