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Business Approaches to Combating Bribery: A Study of Codes of Conduct

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  • Kathryn Gordon
  • Maiko Miyake

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Bribery is becoming a high priority public concern and the legal framework and enforcement apparatus used in the fight against it are being developed in the OECD and elsewhere. Reflecting these civic and legal pressures, firms now often deal with bribery in their codes of corporate conduct – public statements of commitment to abide by a certain standard of business conduct. The question of what firms do internally in the fight against bribery is probably as important to the successful outcome of that fight as formal anti-bribery law and as the attitudes of the public. This paper looks at corporate approaches to anti-bribery commitment and at managerial approaches to implementing these commitments in an inventory of 246 codes of conduct. The paper shows that, while bribery is often mentioned in the codes of conduct, there is considerable diversity in the language and concepts adopted in anti-bribery commitments. This diversity is a feature of the language used in describing parties ...

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  • Kathryn Gordon & Maiko Miyake, 2000. "Business Approaches to Combating Bribery: A Study of Codes of Conduct," OECD Working Papers on International Investment 2000/1, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:dafaaa:2000/1-en
    DOI: 10.1787/082658020086
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    1. Caetano, José & Caleiro, António, 2005. "Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment. What kind of relationship is there?," EconStor Preprints 142738, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    2. Chisari, Omar O. & Ferro, Gustavo, 2009. "Gobierno Corporativo: los problemas, estado actual de la discusión y un ejercicio de medición para Argentina [Corporate Governance: the problems, the current stage of the discussion and a measureme," MPRA Paper 15630, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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