Corruption in International Business - The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity

International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas. As a result, it can often be difficult to discern corruption against what may be a different set of cultural norms. In this book, Sharon Eicher examines corruption as it pertains to the business sector

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Contributors

1. Introduction: What Corruption is and Why it Matters



2. Government for Hire


3. When Shareholders Lose (or Win) through Corruption


4. The Good and Evil Faces of Foreign Investment


5. Quantifying the Immeasurable


6. Critiquing the Indicators of Corruption and Governance


7. Corruption in Chinese Sports Culture


8. Exploring Corruption in the Petroleum Sector


9. Risk Management – Playing By the Rules


10. Changing the Rules: How the Transition Economy of Kyrgyzstan is Reformin Public Corruption


11. An Institutional Approach to Understanding Corruption in BRIC Countries


12. Private-Sector Incentives for Fighting International Corruption



13. Conclusion

Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sharon Eicher is a Ph.D. in Development Economics (2002). Other degrees include B.A. in Political Science and Master's degrees in Islamic Societies, Central Asian Languages & Cultures, and Economics. She has taught Business and Economics courses at KIMEP in Kazakhstan and was Chair of the Department of Business and Economics at Bethel College in Newton, Kansas, in the USA. She now teaches at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, as an Associate Professor of Economics. Sharon has been studying and traveling to the former Soviet Union since 1989. She lived and worked in Kazakhstan for several years where she met with advocates for small business development, befriended many business professionals in the commercial center of Central Asia, Almaty, and developed her understanding of corruption.

Summary

International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas. As a result, it can often be difficult to discern corruption against what may be a different set of cultural norms. In this book, Sharon Eicher examines corruption as it pertains to the business sector

Product details

• Assisted by: Sharon Eicher (Editor), Eicher Sharon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032838014
• ISBN: 978-1-03-283801-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: Corporate Social Responsibility
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, LAW / Corporate, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political corruption, International business, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Company law, Corruption in politics, government and society, Governance;Corruption