... when municipal shareholders have documented corruption episodes. Design/methodology/approach The study analyses 685 Italian enterprises wholly or partly owned by municipalities with over 15,000 inhabitants, using a cross-sectional logistic regression to examine the relationship between municipal...

... years. The top ten most productive journals, countries, authors and academic institutions are identified. The findings from the keyword co-occurrence network reveal six main research themes including innovation, corruption and green public procurement (GPP). By applying bibliographic coupling, the focus...

...Fabio Monteduro; Giuseppe D'Onza; Riccardo Mussari Purpose Corruption is a major social problem, and scholars have devoted considerable attention to this phenomenon. However, less attention has been paid to how corruption spreads among organizations and what factors can make its spread more likely...

... sustainability and public officials’ corruption. The empirical context comprises the state governments in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling is used to examine the relationship between specific contextual factors of the authorizing environment, financial sustainability, public...

...Thang V. Nguyen; Thang N. Bach; Thanh Q. Le; Canh Q. Le Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether higher levels of transparency, accountability, and participation have a statistically significant association with corruption, and whether corruption is highly correlated with lower...

...Michiel De Vries; Iwona Sobis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the analysis of corruption must distinguish between corruption in organizations where this kind of behaviour is widespread and corruption in organizations where it is rare, and must also distinguish between...

... management in procurement needs to be addressed by both local and central government. Originality/value – e-Procurement is an important instrument for preventing corruption in goods and services procurement. Indonesia has been implementing an e-procurement policy since 2008 based on a Presidential...

... management systems into their bureaucracies. This has been encouraged by international agencies as part of their “good governance” agendas. Despite this, the goal of achieving efficient and workable public administration has still not been realized in many cases. Anti‐corruption measures are not effective...

... countries because of Singapore's unique circumstances and favourable policy context. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses four policies initiated by the PAP government: comprehensive reform of the Singapore Civil Service; anti‐corruption measures; decentralization of the Public Service...

..., increasing transparency, standardizing procedures, enhancing end‐product quality and contractor reliability, ensuring proper planning and budgeting, combatting corruption, and strengthening accountability. These reforms were intended to create a procurement system more in line with international best...

... the foundation for further research and debate on the topic. Design/methodology/approach The paper is placed within the current theoretical discourse of corruption and its prevention. It is mainly the product of a literature review on the most recent publications on corruption and its prevention, as well...

...Gurmeet Singh; R.D. Pathak; Rafia Naz; Rakesh Belwal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of corruption in India, Fiji and Ethiopia and survey citizen perception of how e‐governance could fight corruption. The main objective is to investigate and explore the potential of e...

...William De Maria Purpose The paper aims to examine how the measurement of African “corruption” has been manipulated to serve western economic interests. Design/methodology/approach In depth secondary source analysis within a post‐colonial framework. Findings The most popular measure...

... of the government. Corruption, nepotism, and clientalism have produced flaws and shortcomings at both political and administrative level. Political instability in government and poor governance has produced a state that is weak and fragmented. Research limitations/implications It is mainly focused on one...

...Soma Pillay The effect of corruption in South Africa has seriously constrained development of the national economy and has significantly inhibited good governance in the country. South Africa's complex political design is a contributing factor to the rise of corruption, which has adversely affected...

...Bamidele Olowu The Botswana Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) was created in August 1994 against the background of a number of scandals in Botswana’s public life. The Directorate is now almost four years old. Among its main achievements are its successful orchestration...

...Frederick Stapenhurst; Petter Langseth The issue of corruption has come to centre stage. The economic consequences of pervasive corruption, and the recent trends towards democratization, have increased the pressure for accountability and transparency from those in office. Acknowledges...

... sector productivity, such as those shown in Table II , for time series and comparative analyses to be done with good effect. Corruption, simply defined, is the utilization of official positions for private gain. It takes place in transactions between public officials and private individuals...