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Organizational immunity to corruption : building theoretical and research foundations

"Why a book about corruption in organization now? The right time for this book has come for several reasons. First, the study of the effects of corruption in the workplace has become one of the 21st century's most exciting and burgeoning fields of research. Corruption and its variants have been studied across a number of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, law, political science and of course management. The current discussion about corruption in organizational studies is one of the most growing, most fertile and perhaps most fascinating ones. Corruption is also a construct that is multilevel and can be understood as being created and supported by social and cultural interaction. As a result, an ongoing dialogue on corruption permeates the levels of analysis and numerous research domains in organizational studies. Thus I see a major opportunity and necessity to look on corruption from a multilevel and multicultural perspective. Second, in the global society of the world today where organizational boundaries are becoming increasingly transparent and during the Global Crisis, which has been rooted in unethical and corrupt behavior of large corporations, a deeper understanding of corruption, its forms, typologies, ways to increase organizational immunity and the best practices how to fight against corruption that are particularly significant and can also uncover it means that individuals, groups, organizations and whole societies can be used to sustain a sense of purpose, direction, meaning and the right way for creating a moral frame for the ethical behavior in the world of flux. Third, there is a growing pressure in the field of organizational studies and management to formulate theories that stimulate thinking of corruption, to change understanding of the phenomenon and, what is the most important, to carry out actions that produce valued outcomes. Addressing a wide range of topics about corruption in 33 chapters across 3 levels of analysis (understanding corruption, ways to increase organizational immunity to it and best practices / cases how to fight against corruption), this book brings together 48 leading scholars from all over the world. That makes it possible to look on corruption from a multilevel and multicultural perspective. This exciting book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of organizational corruption. It is an essential reference tool to carry out further research on corruption in organization. This book uncovers new theoretical insights that, I hope, will inspire new questions about corruption in organization; it also changes our understanding of the phenomenon and encourages further exploration and research."--Publisher's information
Print Book, English, ©2010
Information Age Pub., Charlotte, NC, ©2010
480 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9781617350504, 9781617350511, 1617350508, 1617350516
641468686
Part I. Corruption Understanding
Chapter 1. Corruption Immunity Based on Positive Organizational Scholarship Towards Theoretical Framework / Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch
Chapter 2. Orienting Business Students to Navigate The Shoals of Corruption in Practice / Charles Wankel
Chapter 3. Corruption, Globalisation and Business Ethics: A Metatheoretical Approach / Mark Edwards
Chapter 4. Defining Corruption / Derrick V. McKoy
Chapter 5. Anti-Corruption Law and Practice / Paul Palmer
Chapter 6. The concept of corruption: Moral and political perspectives / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Chapter 7. Is Corruption Un-Ethical? The Politics and Economics of Corruption. Corrupt universities / Liviu Drugus
Chapter 8. The Multiple Faces of Corruption: Typology, Forms and Levels / Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez
Chapter 9. Money Laundering: Strategic Initiatives for Preventing a Growing Menace / Lisa Amoroso
Chapter 10. Organizational Vulnerability to Corruption: an Interaction with Individual Features / Nelson Ramalho
Part II. Different Perspectives of Corruption Prevention
Chapter 11. Postmodern view of organization behavior and ethical dynamics / Hamid Kazeroony
Chapter 12. United Against Corruption: the United Nations Global Compact's Principles and Strategies Against Local and Global Corruption / Marco Tavanti
Chapter 13. Karma Capitalism: A Normative Standard for Entrepreneurial Leadership / Martin J. Lecker
Chapter 14. Christianity and Organizational Corruptions / Loi Teck Hui
Chapter 15. CSR and Ethical Issues in Operations Management / Philippa Collins
Chapter 16. Alleviating Corruption through CSR / Dima Jamali
Chapter 17. Preventing Corruption Through Spiritual Leadership in Organisations / Radha R. Sharma
Chapter 18. The role of corporate culture in developing and preventing corruption / Birte Horstmann
Chapter 19. Corporate Culture as a Way of Preventing and Combating Corruption in an Enterprise / Larysa Lazorenko
Chapter 20. Prevention and Identification of Organizational Corruption / Li-Hwa Hung
Chapter 21. Modern Tendencies of Companies' Image Forming / Liliya Pan
Chapter 22. Improving the Future from the Past / Ambika Zutshi
Chapter 23. Minimizing Corruption in Organizations: Harnessing the Value of Teams / Tony Lingham
Part III. Cases & Best Practices of Corruption Prevention
Chapter 24. Building anti-corruption activities through reshaping corporate culture: the case of Samsung Electronics / Jae Eon Yu
Chapter 25. Criminal organisations and corruption in Italy / Gianluigi Mangia
Chapter 26. Revising a Concept of Corruption as a Result of the Global Economic Crisis
the Case of Iceland / Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson
Chapter 27. Holcim's Fight Against Corruption / Mislav Ante Omazic
Chapter 28. Corruption Prevention and Corporate Social Responsibility
an Example of a Taiwanese Semiconductor Company / Chieh-Yu Lin
Chapter 29. Employee Commitment and the Development of Corruption: a Case Study / Tom Cockburn
Chapter 30. How the Government Combats Corruption: the Case of Indonesia / Jane Sekarsari Tamtana
Chapter 31. Corruption in China / Yan Zhang
Chapter 32. Cultural Values and Organisational Ethics: Looking at Malaysia / Jo Ann Ho
Chapter 33. Deceit in the Testamentary Process / Alfred Lewis