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Modelling the impact of organizationan structure and whistle blowers on intra-organizational corruption contagion
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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:29 authored by Maziar NekoveeMaziar Nekovee, Jonathan PintoWe complement the rich conceptual work on organizational corruption by quantitatively modeling the spread of corruption within organizations. We systematically vary four organizational culture-related parameters, i.e., organization structure, location of bad apples, employees’ propensity to become corrupted (“corruption probability”), and number of whistle-blowers. Our simulation studies find that in organizations with flatter structures, corruption permeates the organization at a lower threshold value of corruption probability compared to those with taller structures. However, the final proportion of corrupted individuals is higher in the latter as compared to the former. Also, we find that for a 1,000-strong organization, 5% of the workforce is a critical threshold in terms of the number of whistle-blowers needed to constrain the spread of corruption, and if this number is around 25%, the corruption contagion is negligible. Implications of our results are discussed.
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsISSN
0378-4371Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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522Page range
339-349Department affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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2019-02-19First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-02-01First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-12-20Usage metrics
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