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Corruption in International Business: The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity book cover

1st Edition

Corruption in International Business The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity

Edited By Sharon Eicher Copyright 2009
262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening, dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas. Corruption in International... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Contributors

  1. Introduction: What Corruption is and Why it Matters

    2. 　

  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. 　

  13. Conclusion

　

　

Appendix I

Appendix II

Bibliography

Index

Biography

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.

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