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Developing country firms and the challenge of corruption: do company commitments mirror the quality of national-level institutions?
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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:49 authored by Ralf Barkemeyer, Lutz Preuss, Marc OhanaCorruption is an important topic for management scholars and practitioners. Given the rise to economic prominence of firms from developing countries, this paper investigates how developing country firms engage with this challenge. Based on a content analysis of 191 codes of conduct, issued by firms from 18 developing countries, we first investigate what anti-corruption commitments developing country firms make in their codes of conduct; we then determine contextual factors at national business system level that drive differences in firm engagement. We provide evidence for a “mirror view” of corporate social responsibility, according to which companies match the quality of national-level institutions in their own anti-corruption commitments. This result stands in contrast to the basic expectation underlying the concept of corporate social responsibility that companies step in to close governance gaps and address wider societal-level challenges. Our findings thus highlight limitations to purely private governance mechanisms aimed at combatting corruption.
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Journal of Business ResearchISSN
0148-2963Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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90Page range
26-39Department affiliated with
- Strategy and Marketing Publications
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2018-06-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-11-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-06-18Usage metrics
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