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

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Sharon Eicher Professor Guler Aras

Corruption in International Business

The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity

Sharon Eicher, Professor Guler Aras, Professor David Crowther

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Routledge
01 January 2009

Business ethics; International business; Corporate governance & responsibilities

Series: Corporate Social Responsibility

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 Business presents a broad range of perspectives on how corruption can be defined; the responsibilities of those working for publicly traded companies to their shareholders; and the positive influences that corporations can have upon combating international corruption. The authors differentiate between public and private sector corruption and explore the implications of both, as well as methods for qualifying and quantifying corruption and the challenges facing policy makers, legal systems, corporations, and NGOs, as they seek to mitigate the effects of corruption and enable cultural and social change.

Edited by: Sharon Eicher
Series edited by: Professor Guler Aras, Professor David Crowther
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9780754671374
ISBN 10: 0754671372
Series: Corporate Social Responsibility
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 January 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Introduction, SharonEicher; Chapter 2 Government for Hire, SharonEicher; Chapter 3 When Shareholders Lose (or Win) through Corruption, SharonEicher; Chapter 4 The Good and Evil Faces of Foreign Investment, SharonEicher; Chapter 5 Quantifying the Immeasurable, MaksKobonbaev, SharonEicher; Chapter 6 Critiquing the Indicators of Corruption and Governance, MaksKobonbaev, DonaldJacobsen, SharonEicher; Chapter 7 Corruption in Chinese Sports Culture, BenjaminOstrov; Chapter 8 Exploring Corruption in the Petroleum Sector, MaksKobonbaev, SharonEicher; Chapter 9 Risk Management – Playing By the Rules, SharonEicher; Chapter 10 Changing the Rules, TalaibekKoichumanov; Chapter 11 An Institutional Approach to Understanding Corruption in BRIC Countries, QiangYan; Chapter 12, EthanS. Burger, MaryHolland; Chapter 13 Conclusion, SharonEicher;

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. Sharon Eicher, Maks Kobonbaev, Donald, Benjamin Ostrov, Talaibek Koichumanov, Qiang Yan, Ethan S. Burger, Mary Holland.

Reviews for Corruption in International Business: The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity

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