Corruption and social responsibility: bribe offers among small entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan

Sadigov, Turkhan

doi:10.1080/21599165.2013.861351

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“…Rather interestingly, although 53.4% of the entrepreneurs perceived corruption as the most important problem that businesses face in Azerbaijan, they nonetheless paid bribes even though 63.7% had a real choice to avoid them. The same study also revealed that despite the frequency of engaging in bribery, a mere 0.8% of the entrepreneurs expressed fear of the legal consequences of offering a bribe to a public servant (Sadigov, 2014). From a perception point of view, this study implies that despite seeing corruption as a serious impediment to the development of business, entrepreneurs themselves were willing to offer bribes to advance their business interests.…”

Section: White-collar Crime In Azerbaijanmentioning

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Perception of White-Collar Criminality: an Online Exploratory Survey Among Students in Azerbaijan

Shahbazov¹

2021

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Recent studies have challenged traditional wisdom regarding public indifference to white-collar crime by revealing equal or greater perceived seriousness of these crimes among respondents relative to traditional crime. The first of its kind in the local context, this study examined perceptions of white-collar crime among a self-select sample of students (n = 301) at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. The results indicate that, overall, Azerbaijani students view white-collar crimes as more serious than traditional crimes. Specifically, the manipulation of evidence by police officers, the acceptance of a bribe by a government minister, and an accountancy firm representing a large corporation hiding evidence of tax fraud from inspectors were ranked by the overwhelming majority as more serious than the street crimes they were compared with. Nonetheless, in some scenarios, both crime types were deemed equally serious. Binomial tests for comparison of the proportion of answers in each crime scenario, as well as Mann-Whitney U to allow for comparing mean differences in perceived seriousness and punitiveness were employed. Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are discussed in the end.

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Section: White-collar Crime In Azerbaijanmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…In another study of bribery and corruption in Azerbaijan, Sadigov (2014) explored this problem within the sphere of the higher education system. His findings are revealing in terms of public perception of this particular type of white-collar crime in the local context.…”

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Perception of White-Collar Criminality: an Online Exploratory Survey Among Students in Azerbaijan

Shahbazov¹

2021

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“…Our survey findings show that the respondents display lop-sided focus on the Symbolic realm, by investing in the markers of status and prestige. Specific study of small and medium entrepreneurs in 2011 found that spending on luxury is one of three statistically significant factors associated with a higher probability of 495 Psychological dimension of corruption bribe offers in Azerbaijan (Sadigov, 2013). The higher is the share of monthly profit that the respondents are ready to spend on the acquisition of markers of "prestige," the higher is the probability of bribe offers by them.…”

Section: Which Of the Aforementioned Cannot Be Considered Corruption? Corruption Not Corruptionmentioning

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“…The clash between symbols of collective values and the content of rational policymaking is an important policy-making problem in itself. In many countries of the post-Soviet region, the gap between Symbolic form and material Content replays itself on a wide variety of socio-economic and political issues: between modernist urban streets and rustic disregard of streetlights by pedestrians (Sadigov, 2013); between, on the one hand, state requirements of compulsory education system and the population with 99 percent literacy rate and, on the other hand, complete inadequacy of the local education to prepare graduates for either university admission or the Azerbaijani job market (Temple and Petrov, 2004;Isaxanli, 2005;Sadigov, 2013). Therefore, it is important to take note of essential qualities that permeate different problems facing a society.…”

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Psychological dimension of corruption

Sadigov

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore relatively neglected side of corruption – citizen-initiated bribe offers – to identify the degree to which citizens on the grassroots level are ready to support top-down government anti-corruption policies. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Avessalom Podvodny’s framework of modalities, this research analyzes the results of the nationally representative survey of 1,002 respondents, and ten in-depth interviews – both held in Azerbaijan. The author uses both logistic regression and qualitative description to highlight research inferences. Findings Modalities provide a new way of making sense of the factors affecting corruption, and informality. Bribe offers are associated with imbalance within Local-Global, Symbol-Content, Active-Passive pairs of modalities. All of the relevant independent variables (except for one), drawn from relevant theories and organized around modalities, are statistically significant in predicting bribe offers. Research limitations/implications The paper is able to pose and answer fundamental policy questions: why villagers in Azerbaijan prefer to invest in building mosques and cemeteries rather than schools and kindergartens? Why insurance is not perceived as a sphere of business by the Azerbaijani population? On a practical level, the paper shows that governments’ selective focus on bureaucratic graft neglects formidable argument that the problem of corruption is tightly woven into political culture of a post-Soviet society. Simple administrative measures cannot overcome fundamental value orientations within a society. Originality/value The paper adds to corruption researchers’ toolkit, by expanding research to factors affecting citizen voluntary choices to bribe. The research shows what specific variables should be considered and which of them are statistically significant in explaining citizen choices.

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“…Although there is at present no research focusing on tapş specifically, several studies deal with various aspects of tapş in the more general context of informal practices. A variety of methods have been used for this research, including interviews Safiyev 2013aSafiyev , 2013b, ethnography (Lepisto and Kazımzade 2008) and surveys (Hasanov 2009;Sadigov 2013). Ethnographic methods in particular would be useful for understanding the complex structure of tapş transactions and the interaction of vertical and horizontal ties involved in them.…”

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Corruption and social responsibility: bribe offers among small entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan

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