Institutional Pillars and Corruption at the Societal Level

Abstract

institutional pillars, organizational corruption,

A Twenty-First Century Assessment of Values Across the Global Workforce

“…The GLOBE societal values dimensions (House et al 2004) substantially followed the Hofstede values framework with an expanded set of seven values and practices. Based on 1995-1997 surveys of middle managers in 62 societies, GLOBE values scores for 60 societal cultures have been used in cross-national studies of corruption and bribery (e.g., Li et al 2008;Martin et al 2007;Parboteeah et al 2005) and organizational commitment (Fischer and Mansell 2009). The World Values Survey societal-level cultural values are derived from general population surveys in 97 countries (Inglehart 1997) and have been used to study societal attitudes related to modernization and democratization (e.g., Inglehart andWelzel 2005, 2010) and cross-national differences in personal moral philosophy (Forsyth et al 2008).…”

The Role of Ethical Leadership Versus Institutional Constraints: A Simulation Study of Financial Misreporting by CEOs

“…The first comes from research on the causes of corruption in different societies (Getz and Volkema, 2001;Treisman, 2000). Several studies have shown how the level of corporate and individual corruption in a country, including the level of financial misreporting, can be related to the presence or lack of institutions in that country (Li et al, 2008). The second line of research comes from research on corporate social responsibility (CSR).…”

Does Business and Society Scholarship Matter to Society? Pursuing a Normative Agenda with Critical Realism and Neoinstitutional Theory

“…Contra economics, it calls for academics to peel back the layers of reality and expose the more complex sources of particular acts (Li et al, 2007;Selboe, 2002). Importantly, this goes beyond a focus on the here-and-now and emphasizes the need to ascertain the historical underpinnings of institutionalized practices (Archer, 1995).…”