Review: Center for Women’s History, New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, New York, NY

Contemporary Review of Anti-Corruption Measures in Construction Project Management

“…As an age-old phenomenon, corruption has been a socioeconomic canker in the history of humanity and the present world (Tanzi, 1998; Zou, 2006). Noonan (1984) reported that the first case documented on bribery (a form of corruption) was in 3000 BC. However, the evolution of corruption over the years has led to the development of new forms, causative factors, and other risk indicators that expose public and private institutions to the vulnerabilities and detriments of corruption (Chan & Owusu, 2017).…”

A Percolation-Like Process of Within-Organization Collective Corruption: A Computational Approach

“…Besides the roles of bad individuals in facilitating a collective corruption, their relative positions also promote or attenuate a collective corruption (Allinson, 2004; Crane, Matten, & Moon, 2004; Langenberg, 2004; Pinto et al, 2008; Shleifer & Vishny, 1986; Tenbrunsel & Messick, 1999; Williamson, 1981, 1996). Researchers postulate that the cause of corporate corruption lies in the surrounding factors of individual actors as well as their personal attributes (Klitgaard, 1988; Noonan, 1984). That is, the collective corruption can be further developed with the pressures from positions and authority which influence actors’ decisions to participate in the collective corruption.…”

“…Corruption is not always the consequence of an individual’s immorality; rather, it is the result of collective misbehaviors of multiple actors (Ashforth & Anand, 2003; Greve, Palmer, & Pozner, 2010; Lin, 2001; Nielsen, 1996; Noonan, 1984; Pinto, Leana, & Pil, 2008). As seen in the cases of insider trading (“Crony Capitalism,” 2004), price fixing (Baker & Faulkner, 1993), financial fraud (Baker & Faulkner, 2003, 2004), and churning (McLean, 2001), corruption often occurs when one actor enables the other actors (e.g., board members, employees, supervisors, or persons from other firms in the same/different industry) to increase opportunities for deceit, deviance, and misconduct (Ashforth & Anand, 2003; Pinto et al, 2008; Smith-Crowe & Warren, 2014).…”

Does it pay to bribe? The influence of bribery on new venture disbanding in China

“…Although there is “not a country in the world which does not treat bribery as criminal on its lawbooks” (Noonan, 1984: 702), bribery remains the norm rather than the exception all over the world. According to a survey administered in 95 countries by Transparency International, one person in four has paid a bribe to a public body in 2017 (Transparency International, 2017).…”