control of corruption and to effective democracy, and recognising that the cost of transparency is diminished confidentiality … and privacy. Applies this to the retrieval of the proceeds of corruption, using a case study in Italy to show how a wife …’s complaint about divorce compensation led to the uncovering of corruption involving many politicians. Discusses how codes of …

Reviews the present role of corruption in English law, pointing out that there is actually no offence of corruption …, nor of fraud, although there is a draft bill to establish the general offence of fraud; the link of corruption with bribes …, provide a new definition and draft a general offence of corruption. Outlines what this new concept of corruption would be: the …

boundaries of corruption: a structural perspective, a social‐normative perspective, and an organizational‐normative perspective …. Findings – The paper finds that corruption should be considered not only as a social construct, a cultural phenomenon (from a … corruption serves both to sway people away from their moral duties and to favour self‐interest, we cannot look at corruption as …

the modern notion of corruption from Enlightenment to post-modernity. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzed to … what extent the classical notion of corruption (Plato, Aristotle and Cicero) still influenced the way philosophers … perceived the phenomenon of corruption during the Enlightenment (1625-1832), the transition period (1833-1900) and the post …

This paper considers the distributional dynamics of a well‐known corruption index. Specifically, we are interested in … evaluating whether corruption is best characterized as multimodal (i.e. pointing to clusters of countries with persistently … different levels of corruption) and whether there have been significant changes (i.e. convergence or divergence) in the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the analysis of corruption must distinguish between corruption in … organizations where this kind of behaviour is widespread and corruption in organizations where it is rare, and must also distinguish … between corruption as the outcome of an economic cost-benefit analysis and corruption induced by social-psychological factors …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to present a conceptual analysis of how the issue of corruption in Ghana’s public …-setting, corruption, employee motivation and transformational leadership to develop a conceptual framework to explain this link between … goal integration through transformational leadership and corruption reduction. Findings Findings from this study showed …

phenomenon of corruption in a way that is relevant for corrupt practices in globalized markets. Design/methodology/approach – The … paper analyzes five levels of corruption from a philosophical viewpoint: corruption of principles (“ontic …/spiritual/axiological corruption”), corruption of moral behavior (“moral corruption”), corruption of people (“social corruption”), corruption of …

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of the “no safe haven” anti-corruption commitment recently announced … massive corruption. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the analysis of international legal instruments and … argument in favour of adoption of the “no safe haven” policy as a legal standard in anti-corruption cooperation, rather than a …