Disclosure on Measures to Prevent Corruption Risks: A Study of Italian Local Governments

D’Onza, Giuseppe; Brotini, Francesco; Zarone, Vincenzo

doi:10.1080/01900692.2016.1143000

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“…The company perspective has assumed that corruption not only breaks the successful implementation of sustainable governance but also undermines the company's effort in asserting environmental and social policies and processes (Bassen & Kovács, ; Simpson & Samson, ; Yadav & Pathak, ). To this extent, it is important to consider the positive impact of disclosure about anticorruption measures, as discussed concerning local governments (D'Onza, Brotini, & Zarone, ). It has been demonstrated that the disclosure of anti‐corruption measures can contribute to the sustainability of the governance model as a way to repair organisational legitimacy after an occurrence of corruption or to prevent and mitigate the risk of corruption.…”

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A sustainable governance model to prevent corporate corruption: Integrating anticorruption practices, corporate strategy and business processes

2020

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Our paper investigates the integration of anticorruption practices, corporate strategy and business processes of contemporary organisations to provide a new and emerging sustainable governance model. Using the single case study approach to answer our research question, we provide novel evidence from the analysis of the Italian manufacturing company Acciai Speciali Terni Spa. Our case study interprets a consolidated entrepreneurial experience, constructing an integrated meta‐management framework of anticorruption practices. Enriching existing literature, we have adopted the frameworks by Asif et al., (2010) and Asif et al., (2011) to test results and obtain general perspectives and practical implications for organisations, regulators and governments, proposing a sustainable governance model to prevent corruption and bribery.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A sustainable governance model to prevent corporate corruption: Integrating anticorruption practices, corporate strategy and business processes

2020

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“…Referring this reasoning to public hospitals can easily allow us to conclude that the losers usually are represented by patients, and related damages could be catastrophic. Internalizing the cost of (or the loss generated by) misconducts, even corruption [99] is, therefore, the result of two main components: governance mechanisms and internal control systems adopted.…”

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Higher Sustainability and Lower Opportunistic Behaviour in Healthcare: A New Framework for Performing Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment

2018

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Innovative health technology deployment represents the primary challenge within the sustainability of public health systems. On one hand, new technologies may potentially improve access to care and the quality of services. On the other hand, their rapid evolution and broad implications on existing procedures increase the risk to adopt technologies that are not value for money. As a consequence, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a critical process at each level of the National Health System. Focusing on the organisational level, this paper explores the current practices of Hospital-Based HTA (HB-HTA) in terms of management, control and behaviours of various actors involved. Among several tasks, decision-makers are appointed at managing the conflict of interest around health technology development, that could pave the way for corruption or other misleading behaviours. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is proposing a new strategic framework, named Health Technology Balanced Assessment (HTBA), to foster hospital-based health technology management aimed to align strategy and actions. The conceptual model is developed on three perspectives (clinical, economic and organisational) to make the actors involved in the assessment (clinicians, health professionals, hospital managers and patients) aware of the impact of new technology on the value chain. Besides supporting the decision-making process, such a tool represents support for the internal control system as a whole. By promoting structured evaluation, it increases transparency and accountability of public health organisations. Moreover, in the long run, the framework proposed will be useful to reach selected United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to enhance the quality of healthcare in the future.

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“…efficiency and effectiveness of public actions related to the regulations on transparency of the performance (individual and organizational) of public administrations (started with Decree 150 of 2009); safeguarding public resources and preserving the "legitimacy" of public management (D'Onza et al, 2017;Curtin & Meijer, 2006) related to the obligations in the sphere of external disclosure (from multi-year plans to dedicated reports) of continuous corruption prevention activities (Law 190 of 2012) to be achieved by identifying and mapping the most risky processes and the appropriate forms of intervention on organizational structures; measurement and external communication of the value created by public services through reports on the activities (Salvioni and Bosetti, 2014) of the participating entities of public bodies, made more significant by the accounting system reform launched in 2009 and inspired by the harmonization and greater intelligibility of both accounting and nonaccounting information (about governance, for example, as provided by Law 124 of 2015, particularly Legislative Decrees 175 of 2016 and 100 of 2017); -A prospective guideline: the production and organization of data in support of open government policies: essential in this perspective is the quality of information produced in terms of significant, intelligible and timely usable open data. In essence, transparency is affirmed both on the level of regulations and resulting managerial implications as a true "essential level of provisions relating to social and civil rights", recalling anti-corruption Law 190 of 1990.…”

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An Evolutionary Transparency Approach to Public Accountability

Anselmi¹,

Zarone²,

Brunelli³

2017

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The concept of accountability reflects the growing importance that transparency has assumed in Italy and elsewhere. The evolutionary path of transparency in the Italian public sector from the postwar period to the present day emerges as in increasingly pervasive transparency, both in form and substance. The general, specific, and prospective guidelines are aimed at: strengthening the constitutional principles of impartiality and the good performance of public administrations; increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration activities, safeguarding public finances and preserving public management legitimacy; measuring and externally communicating the value created; producing and organising meaningful data in support of open government policies to increase the welfare of the economy.

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Disclosure on Measures to Prevent Corruption Risks: A Study of Italian Local Governments

Cited by 26 publications

References 48 publications

A sustainable governance model to prevent corporate corruption: Integrating anticorruption practices, corporate strategy and business processes

A sustainable governance model to prevent corporate corruption: Integrating anticorruption practices, corporate strategy and business processes

Higher Sustainability and Lower Opportunistic Behaviour in Healthcare: A New Framework for Performing Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment

An Evolutionary Transparency Approach to Public Accountability

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