“…Corruption in many countries in the world has a negative effect, according to research results (Ahmad & Ali, 2010;Sheng et al, 2016;Romano et al, 2021;Sundström, 2016;Rock, 2009;Pook, 2008;Nadeem et al, 2021;(Athanasouli & Goujard, 2015); Luo, 2002;Habib et al, 2020;D'Agostino et al, 2016;Timmons & Garfias, 2015;Sharma & Mitra, 2015;Sinha et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019). There is little empirical evidence to suggest that corruption has a positive impact (Ahyaruddin & Amrillah, 2018;Blackburn & Powell, 2011;Huang, 2016).…”