Overview of Corruption Research in Construction

Le, Yun; Shan, Ming; Chan, Albert P.C.; Hu, Yi

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000300

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“…Web of Science is a powerful, highly recognized academic search engines used by researchers worldwide to track the latest research progress in various areas [34][35][36][37][38]. Thus, this paper selected to use Web of Science to track down those published journal articles relating to sustainable construction project financing.…”

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A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

2017

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Despite the increasing investment in sustainable development over the past decade, a systematic review of sustainable construction project financing is lacking. The objectives of this paper are to conduct a systematic review to examine the policies, practices, and research efforts in the area of sustainable construction project financing, and to explore the potential opportunities for the future research. To achieve these goals, this paper first reviewed the sustainable construction project financing practices implemented by four representative developed economies including the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, and Australia. Then, this paper reviewed the efforts and initiatives launched by three international organizations including the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and International Finance Corporation. After that, this paper reviewed the research efforts of sustainable construction project financing published in peer-review journals and books. This paper identified four major research themes within this area, which are the review of financial stakeholders and market of sustainable construction, benefits and barriers to sustainable construction project financing, financial vehicles for sustainable construction projects, innovative models and mechanisms for sustainable construction project financing. Additionally, this paper revealed five directions for the future research of sustainable construction project financing, which are the identification of financial issues in sustainable construction projects, the investigation of financial vehicles for sustainable construction projects in terms of their strengths, limitations, and performances, the examination of critical drivers for implementing sustainable construction project financing, the development of a knowledge-based decision support system for implementing sustainable construction financing, and the development of best practices for implementing sustainable construction project financing. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by reviewing existing policies, practices, and research efforts in the area of sustainable construction project financing. Meanwhile, the findings from this paper benefit the industry as well, because they are able to provide the practitioners with a holistic view of sustainable construction project financing, thereby enhancing their knowledge and skills in this regard.

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A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

2017

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“…Our empirical evidence, based on a sample of 42 countries over the period 1995 to 2011 and accounting for both the confounding effect of other variables and the possibility that corrupt officials may favor the development of the construction sector, provides robust support for the negative impact of construction on control of corruption. As such it supports calls to adopt anti-corruption measures in this industry at the same time as it recognizes that public officials in corrupt countries may tend to resist policies that reduce their access to rents (see, Transparency International (2011) for a review of initiatives and Le et al (2014) for anti-corruption strategies).…”

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“…A range of qualitative, mostly, country case studies have considered the nature of corruption in the construction industry (see, Le et al 2014 for a survey). Corruption can occur at any stage of a construction project, from planning and design, bidding and construction and operation and maintenance.…”

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Construction corrupts: empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries

2015

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The construction sector, whether privately or publically financed, is characterized by potentially large rents and government intervention. Not surprisingly then, both casestudy and survey evidence has been provided highlighting the problem of corruption in this sector. In this article, we test the proposition that a bigger construction sector is likely to be inimical to clean government based on a panel of 42 countries over the period 1995 to 2011. We control for a range of potentially counfounding variables and the expectation that corrupt public officials may favor the development of this sector because it increases the volume of rents available to them. Our empirical evidence shows that a larger construction sector will tend to worsen perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain. JEL Classification: D73, L74

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“…On account of that, some countries even questioned the transparency and efficiency of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) (citation). China as well as other developing countries with rapid economic growth are facing a greater challenge in preventing corruption than the developed world due to the lack of sufficiently legislative and institutional support (Alutu 2007;Bowen et al 2007aBowen et al , b, 2012Alutu, Udhawuve 2009;Ameh, Odusami 2010;Tabish, Jha 2011;Choudhry, Iqbal 2013;Le Y et al 2014).…”

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“…Unfortunately, although anti-corruption policies have already been proposed and employed in the public construction projects, the public construction is still the most corruptive industry recognized by the public. The severe situation of corruption in public construction projects has not been alleviated by far (Transparency International 2006, 2008, which causes the policy-maker to explore some complex measures to deal with the corruption in public construction projects, such as the adoption of ethical codes and related training programs for construction industry professionals (Le Y. et al 2014;Tu, Tu, & Jhangr, 2016) and the acceptance of a debarment system used already in the European Union, whereby companies or individuals who are found to be guilty of corruption are prevented from participating in future construction projects (Jong et al 2009). Besides, promoting competition is considered as a desirable policy in relation to bids for public sector construction projects (Ades, Di Tella 1999;Kenny 2009), especially when the links between natural resource endowments and corruption can be confirmed (Aslaksen 2009;Busse, Gro¨ning 2013;Sala-i-Martin, Subramanian 2013).…”

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Does Multi-Attribute Bidding in Public Construction Projects Prevent Corruption while Tenderers’ Preferences are Open? A Study of China’s Practice

Yang

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2017

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This paper establishes a method of supply-chain multi-attribute reverse auction. Presuming the tenderers' preference is open, the paper proposes a non-cooperative multi-attribute bidding game model about public construction projects and analyzes the bidding strategies of tenderers and bidders. Through the simulation of a case in China, we find that: (1) the more committed of the tenderers to construction quality and schedule, the greater benefits, enthusiasm in bidding, and tenderer's surplus; (2) the bidder's benefits have a U-shaped relationship respectively with the bidding quality and the construction period; and (3) the greater the bidder's construction quality and period cost coefficients, the smaller the tenderer's surplus. Such conclusions indicate, the improvement of the bidding rules or procedures can contribute to restricting the behavior of tenderer and bidder, furthermore reducing the corruption possibility of public construction projects.

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Overview of Corruption Research in Construction

Cited by 137 publications

References 67 publications

A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

Construction corrupts: empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries

Does Multi-Attribute Bidding in Public Construction Projects Prevent Corruption while Tenderers’ Preferences are Open? A Study of China’s Practice

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