Catalyzing Corporate Commitment to Combating Corruption
This article considers what policy reforms may help catalyze corporate commitment to combating corruption. The starting point for this discussion is a voluntary, corporate principles approach to self-regulation. Such an approach should seek to encourage corporations to implement effective compliance...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2009
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Journal of business ethics
Année: 2009, Volume: 88, Numéro: 4, Pages: 781-790 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Multi-stakeholder initiatives
B facilitation payments B private-to-private corruption B Corruption B corporate monitors B Bribery B Sustainability reporting |
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Résumé: | This article considers what policy reforms may help catalyze corporate commitment to combating corruption. The starting point for this discussion is a voluntary, corporate principles approach to self-regulation. Such an approach should seek to encourage corporations to implement effective compliance and ethics programs and to disclose information related to their anti-corruption activities to relevant stakeholders. Although a corporate principles approach is a private initiative, there is a significant role for the public sector. This article discusses some of the ways that the public sector can support and further the goals of a corporate principles approach to combating corruption. The reforms discussed in this article include amnesty programs for corporations that self-disclose corrupt payments, the use of corporate monitors in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws, expanding the definition of corruption in criminal laws, sustainability reporting indicators related to bribery, and the implementation of multi-stakeholder initiatives to support a corporate principles approach. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0322-7 |