The Impact of Personal Relationships on Bribery Incidence in Transition Economies

Jong, Gjalt de; Tú, Phan Anh; Ees, Hans van

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“…At the firm level, corruption increasingly absorbs the returns from business activities and distorts entrepreneurial spirit and behaviour (De Jong, Tu, & Ees, 2012;De Jong, Tu, & Ees, 2014;Van Dut, 2015). Firms involved in corruption report higher costs and greater uncertainty that ultimately impact their strategic or investment decisions (Olken & Pande, 2012).…”

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Corruption and the business environment in Vietnam: Implications from an empirical study

Maruichi

Abé

2019

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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This paper examines the effect of corruption on the business environment in Vietnam. Our survey of firms conducted in Vietnam suggests that corruption is perceived as the most impactful business obstacle for their operation. It was also found that corruption has a significant negative association with the overall satisfaction of the business environment in Vietnam, which supports the hypothesis that corruption has a "sand the wheel" effect on firms' business activities. Given these results, it is urgent that the Vietnamese public authorities accelerate efforts in mitigating this issue. Although this paper sheds light on the importance of corruption, it would be useful to conduct follow-up studies examining corruption and its impact in more detail. Such studies could be conducted in segments that most severely suffer from corruption according to our survey, that is, mediumsized enterprises in the hotel/restaurant and construction sectors, Hanoi based, and Vietnamese owned firms.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: Corruptionmentioning

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Corruption and the business environment in Vietnam: Implications from an empirical study

Maruichi

Abé

2019

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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“…In line with de Jong et al . (), we, therefore, focus on the bribe payment, as a corrupt transaction and consider firms as units of our analysis. In contrast to de Jong et al .…”

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“…Private ends, in this context, are often driven by firms' interests. In line with de Jong et al (2015), we, therefore, focus on the bribe payment, as a corrupt transaction and consider firms as units of our analysis. In contrast to de Jong et al (2015), however, we include not only the payment of monetary means to public officials in our definition of corporate corruption.…”

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“…In line with de Jong et al (2015), we, therefore, focus on the bribe payment, as a corrupt transaction and consider firms as units of our analysis. In contrast to de Jong et al (2015), however, we include not only the payment of monetary means to public officials in our definition of corporate corruption. In line with the FCPA, we expand our definition of corruption to any payment or offer of anything of value to any person with the objective to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business.…”

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“…Economic, political, and cultural factors have been identified as influencing corrupt activities on a country level (Mauro, 1997;Svensson, 2005). Yet firmlevel studies on the impact of firm-level factors on corruption are largely missing from the picture (Cosenz and Noto, 2014;de Jong and van Ees, 2014;Donadelli et al, 2014) or based on empirical analyses of corporate corruption in one single country (Carretta et al, 2012;de Jong et al, 2015;Luo, 2011;Nguyen and van Dijk, 2012;Ravenda et al, 2015). One reason for the focus on macro-rather than firm-level studies is the availability of corruption measurements.…”

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This study examines the relationship between firm‐level factors including corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and financial constraints, and the firm‐level risk of corruption. Facing a measurement challenge referring to firm‐level risk of corruption, we define a corruption score based on corporate disclosures of corrupt activities. We show that, first, CSR performance is negatively related to the risk of corporate corruption. Second, a firm's vulnerability to financial constraints is positively related to the risk of corporate corruption. Third, the effects are particularly strong for firms with low board independence. Finally, we contribute to prior literature by developing the first firm‐level corruption score that is not only robust to prevalent corruption indices but is also applicable to any dataset and can be used for future research on firm‐level corruption. Moreover, the study provides new empirical evidence on firm‐level determinants that relate to corporate corruption risk.

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The perpetuation of bribery–prone relationships: A study from Vietnamese public officials

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Studies of bribery have not adequately considered individual psychological processes in the development of bribery-prone relationships. We propose an integration of moral disengagement and the norm of reciprocity as a theoretical lens to explain the evolvement of bribery-prone relationships. Based on qualitative data from a sample of government officials in Vietnam, we found that public officials normally go through a "calculative judgment", experience a certain level of emotional discomfort and then use rationalization strategies to decide whether to engage in a bribery-prone exchange or relationship. Furthermore, these psychological processes are distinctive in the initiation and perpetuation stages of a bribery-prone relationship. The study suggests that interactions of the norm of reciprocity and wider ethical norms in governing bribery should be further addressed by both researchers and practitioners.

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The Impact of Personal Relationships on Bribery Incidence in Transition Economies

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