Fighting corruption: How binding commitments of business firms can help to activate the self-regulating forces of competitive markets

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Corruption is a serious and complex challenge for modern societies. Fighting and preventing corruption thus requires constructive learning processes. In this paper, we systematically integrate a market ethics perspective with a business ethics perspective constitutive for the study of 'ordonomics'. In doing so, we argue that, first, companies have a(n) (common) interest in actively fighting corruption using collective forms of self-regulation and, second, we show what companies can do about it internally. We derive the first argument from a market ethics perspective that shows how companies suffer from a race to the bottom that results from corruption under market competition. The second argument is based on a business ethics perspective that shows how cartels of silence within companies can create significant obstacles for well-meaning top management to address the problem effectively.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN: 978-3-96670-025-2

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 2019-04

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: corruption ; prevention of corruption ; governance ; commitments ; social dilemmas ; integrity management ; Korruption ; Korruptionsprävention ; Selbstbindungen ; soziale Dilemmata ; Integritätsmanagement

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Pies, Ingo ; Hielscher, Stefan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik
• (wo): Halle (Saale)
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/213280
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-116162
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 12.07.2024, 13:23 MESZ