The anti-corruption industry: from movement to institution

Sampson, Steven

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“…"Issues that can affect the functioning of effective markets in one region of the world can now affect the entire global market; corruption is finally being recognized as one of those issues" (Hess & Dunfee, 2000, p. 600). Interaction between civil society, national policy elites and international pressures has led in many countries to the emergence of a veritable anti-corruption industry (Sampson, 2010). Translated to the organizational level, Luo (2006) found that firms with a great emphasis on the implementation of CSR tools, such as codes of conduct and other corporate policies pertaining to major stakeholders, responded to increasing corruption by reducing their social connections with governmental officials, whereas firms with a lower emphasis on CSR tools actually increased the use of their social ties with government officials.…”

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Corporate reporting on corruption: An international comparison

2015

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Building on an institutionalist framework of the various organizational field-level pressures on firms to engage with the challenge of corruption, we analyse anti-corruption disclosures across a sample of 933 sustainability reports. Such reporting complements anti-corruption initiatives, as it allows the company to demonstrate its commitment. Our results show clear country-and sector-level differences in the extent to which companies communicate their anti-corruption engagement. However, the more a company is exposed to corruption, the less likely it appears to openly communicate its anti-corruption engagement. Hence, our results cast doubt on the effectiveness of anti-corruption disclosures as part of wider sustainability reporting.

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Corporate reporting on corruption: An international comparison

2015

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“…), international organizations discovering new policy fields (e.g. Krastev 2004) and the emergence of an Banti-corruption industry^ (Sampson 2010a) that profits from offering solutions to fabricated problems. Also, the global fight against corruption is by many commentators explained as a consequence of the proliferation of Bneo-liberal^ideals of government framing public officials as essentially rent-seeking monopolists-a fact that in view of the anti-corruption crusaders can only be changed by manipulating incentive structures towards more organizational transparency and observability, less discretion, the abolishment of state monopolies, tough punishments and a dedicated whistleblower protection policy.…”

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A Short History of the Sociology of Corruption: the Demise of Counter-Intuitivity and the Rise of Numerical Comparisons

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2016

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This article examines the history of the sociology of corruption. It is shown that from the 1950s until the early 1970s, the sociological discourse on corruption was dominated by a functionalist approach that tried to offer a counter-intuitive perspective on deviant behavior in arguing that corruption has positive functions for political and economic development. Because of a political reading of this discourse, its ambiguous terminology and some difficulties in methodology, it was largely abandoned in sociology. However, this not only led to a change in paradigmatic orientations in the sociology of corruption, but also to a general decline in interest for the phenomenon in sociology. This gap was filled by economic models of corruption that could bypass some terminological difficulties in defining corruption and, building on this, also enabled a largely quantitative approach in numerically comparing, correlating and ranking corruption. The effect was a consensus on the mostly negative effects of corruption on development, a proliferation of the transparency ideal and the disability of sociology to offer an alternative perspective on evaluating the effects of corruption.

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“…Compliance is now what we anthropologists might call an "assemblage" (Ong and Collier 2005 ), although I would rather term it a "package" of norms and practices-a package that travels (Sampson 2010(Sampson , 2015. The traveling is facilitated by compliance officer organizations that market their ethical project as good for business, and that promote the need for skills and competencies in ethics and compliance and, therefore, a certification regime.…”

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The “Right Way”: Moral Capitalism and the Emergence of the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Officer

Sampson

2016

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Under the influence of U.S. government regulations, enforcement of antibribery laws and embarrassing corruption scandals, major global corporations have realized that unethical conduct may affect not only their reputations but also their profits. This development has given rise to a new position within the traditional management team: the ethics and compliance officer (who differs from the established corporate social responsibility function). Based on field research in the compliance industry, this article describes how the moralization of firms has led to the emergence of a new corporate function: the ethics and compliance officer. It further describes how ethics and compliance officers learn their craft and how they cope with their role as moral compass of firms that need to compete in a global market where ethics may be viewed as a cost that inhibits profitability.

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The anti-corruption industry: from movement to institution

Cited by 150 publications

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Corporate reporting on corruption: An international comparison

Corporate reporting on corruption: An international comparison

A Short History of the Sociology of Corruption: the Demise of Counter-Intuitivity and the Rise of Numerical Comparisons

The “Right Way”: Moral Capitalism and the Emergence of the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Officer

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