community and formal enforcement, while corruption undermines it. We discuss how community can play an important role in a …

corruption. Numerous studies suggest a relationship between the design of civil service systems and corruption, but few studies … actually test this theoretical link. We hypothesize that corruption levels depend on the presence or absence of particular … bargaining rights; we also assess the impact of wages on corruption levels. We test these hypotheses using World Bank data from a …

. This question is intimately related to broader issues of concern to organization theory including the usefulness and value … complexity with mainstream organization theory, we address three research questions: (1) how does the architecture or structure … complementarity. We discuss the implications of our findings for organization theory and design and also the burgeoning literature on …

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 … costly to maintain. We explore the implications of some reform policies aimed at reducing corruption …

The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of … assumptions on the structure of the game. -- corruption ; repeated games ; hold up ; extortion ; capture …

This paper develops a game theoretic model of corruption in tax assessments. Bureaucrats are assumed to be … heterogeneous in the level of corruption and the favors they offer to the public. Our first result establishes the optimal amount of …

culture of corruption. …

culture of corruption …

This paper studies the impact of decentralisation on corruption in a hierarchy, where decentralisation is intended as … the delegation of power to lower levels. More decentralisation has a positive impact on corruption, raising individual … their propensity to corruption and raising the higher layers' monitoring. When this second effect dominates …