“…All the research questions provided in the special issue proposal have been addressed by the contributors: Ruggiero and Mussari (2022) focus on the definitions, characteristics and issues of corporate corruption and Trequattrini et al (2022) analyse the contribution of blockchain‐based technologies to anticorruption practices; Changwony and Kyiu (2022) examine the implications of business strategies on the tendency for firms to engage in corruption; Cappelli et al (2022) explore the challenge of digital change and its contribution to transparency and anticorruption policies within Italian universities; Medioli et al (2022) analyse the influence of public governance environment on the strategical opportunistic use of related party transactions in family firms; and Cardoni et al (2022) investigate the value relevance of corporate governance and anticorruption policies from a sustainable value perspective, basing the analysis on institutional and stakeholder theories; Moscariello et al (2022), through a single case study, offer practical insights to understand what are the main attributes that distinguish an effective compliance programme from a formal/legal one.…”