Institutions and the culture dimension of corruption in Nigeria

Hope, Kempe Ronald

doi:10.1007/s10611-018-9779-6

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“…In other words, the respondents disagreed that CCB has reduced PBR in Nigeria. This finding is consistent with that of other similar studies that shows that CCB has played a minimal role in reducing bribery practices among politicians and public workers in Nigeria (Hope, 2018).…”

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Perceptions on the impact of anti-bribery measures, strategies and programs on the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria

Saddiq¹,

Bakar

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the perceptions of the grassroots on the impact of combative policy measures, strategies and programs introduced by the government and the civil society to reduce persistent occurrences of bribery practices in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Multi-stage or cluster sampling was used to acquire the data for this paper via survey questionnaire administered to the grassroots in Abuja, Nigeria. The data set is used to assess the impact of the various policy measures, strategies and programs on the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria. The multiple linear regression method was used to estimate the data generated from 836 responses in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. Findings The result of the estimations indicates that the respondents perceived that some of the policy measures, strategies and programs introduced have reduced persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria, whereas others have remained ineffective in reducing the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria. Originality/value Previous studies on the impact of anti-bribery policy measures, strategies and programs were largely based on the perceptions of international institutions and business executives; this study appears to be the pioneer to focus on the perceptions of the grassroots in Abuja, Nigeria.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Perceptions on the impact of anti-bribery measures, strategies and programs on the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria

Saddiq¹,

Bakar

2021

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“…One of the main aspects in corruption is enormous sums of money, which are in play (Hope, 2018; Cornell and Sundell, 2020; Tang et al , 2018). In many cases, political corruption and bureaucratic corruption are related.…”

Section: Challenges In Governmental Organisationmentioning

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Corruption as distinct crime: the need to reconceptualise internal control on controlling bureaucratic occupational fraud

Maulidi

Ansell

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide theoretical guidance that enables local governments to deal with occupational fraud. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative approach is used to examine the efficacy of the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) internal control framework in tackling occupational fraud in local government. To achieve the goals, the authors performed a survey of the Indonesian auditor institutions. Findings It is not appropriate to argue that all types of local government fraud can be deterred by a single internal control. The study suggests that COSO internal controls are not effective for dealing with corruption cases. However, the authors do find the efficacy of those controls are obvious for controlling asset misappropriation and financial statement fraud. This result indicates that if the COSO internal control framework is only designed for routine financial control and asset protection, it significantly and negatively influences its efficacy to deal with occupational fraud. This study has both theoretical and managerial implications, discussed separately. Originality/value In the field of prevention, the authors cannot make generalised theories and approaches for dealing with occupational fraud. Whilst previous authors have offered fraud deterrents in terms of internal controls, they have failed to realise the need to understand their effectiveness for particular forms of fraud. This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of internal controls in achieving their goals. This has both practical applications and stimulates theoretical insights.

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“…The concept of patronage politics takes us to the dysfunctional political structures of the Nigeria state which is also represented by the MEITU theory. Such political structures include: (a) quasi‐democratic setup and kleptocratic hijack of national sovereignty by elites; (b) a centralized economic decision‐making and disbursement of funds; (c) lawlessness in the administrative processes and, lastly (d) bad exemplary and ethical leadership (Hope, 2000, 2018; Sule et al, 2018). Such structures might breed other potential mechanisms to be at work in our context, for example, nepotism (Agbiboa, 2013), political clientelism (Hope, 2018; Rasak, Oye, Ake, & Raji, 2017) as well as elitism and income inequality (Inuwa, Ononiwu, et al, 2019).…”

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Dimensions that characterize and mechanisms that cause the misuse of information systems for corrupt practices in the Nigerian public sector

Inuwa

Ononiwu

Kah

2020

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This article explores the dimensions and structural mechanisms that can foster the misuse of information systems (IS) for corrupt practices. Using the abductiveretroductive strategy native to critical realism, we present a realist conceptualization of why the misuse of IS for corrupt practices occurs in the Nigerian public sector. Routine activity, reintegrative shaming, model of emergent IT use, and normalization theories were adopted as theoretical lenses. Danermark et al's six-stage explanatory framework embedded with a single case study was adopted as the methodology. Focus group and semistructured interviews were used as primary sources of data, while archival documents and press media reports were used as secondary data sources. From the data analysis, malleability structures of the IS artifacts, dysfunctional structures of the Nigerian state, embeddedness of corrupt routines into IS artifacts, institutionalization, socialization, rationalization, and negative reintegrative shaming were identified as core causal structural mechanisms generating the misuse of IS for corrupt practices in the study context. Such corrupt practices were clustered in motivated offenders, suitable targets, and absence of a capable guardian as dimensions that characterized the misuse of IS by our findings. Our findings contribute to theory, practice, and the methodology of critical realism.

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Institutions and the culture dimension of corruption in Nigeria

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Perceptions on the impact of anti-bribery measures, strategies and programs on the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria

Perceptions on the impact of anti-bribery measures, strategies and programs on the persistence of bribery practices in Nigeria

Corruption as distinct crime: the need to reconceptualise internal control on controlling bureaucratic occupational fraud

Dimensions that characterize and mechanisms that cause the misuse of information systems for corrupt practices in the Nigerian public sector

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