Understanding and Confronting Organizational Corruption and Wrongdoing in the Era of Grand Societal Challenges

Éditeurs invités

• Stefan Schembera, Radboud University
• Armando Castro, University College London
• Don Lange, Arizona State University
• Kathleen Rehbein, Marquette University

Synthèse

Despite several decades of anti-corruption research and reform, organizational corruption continues to persist. A similarly persisting and related phenomenon is wrongdoing—violations of formal law, explicit industry and professional codes, or less formal organizational rules, social norms, and ethical principles. Thus, wrongdoing includes a wide range of behaviors such as money laundering, tax evasion, anti-competitive behavior, manipulation of organizational performance, and human rights abuses.

To address organizational corruption and wrongdoing in their myriad forms requires deep understanding of the contexts in which they are embedded. Today's rapidly changing world presents a seemingly unprecedented number of emerging and growing grand challenges and crises to confront.

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Thèmes proposés

• New challenges and opportunities associated with current societal challenges and SDGs including climate change, good health and wellbeing, and war, kleptocracy, and threats to democracy
• How does corruption and wrongdoing emerge from climate-change pressures?
• How do organizations use corrupt practices to fight or diminish environmental protection policies and laws?
• How and why can combatting wrongdoing help to prevent future pandemics?
• How does the urgency, uncertainty, and complexity involved in global scandals or crises foster wrongdoing?
• How and why do changes in business routines reveal opportunities for tackling corruption?
• How do wars and related energy crises affect anti-corruption efforts?
• How does corruption stand in the way of overcoming wars and threats to democracy?
• How do firms choose whether or not to do business in countries with authoritarian regimes?
• How does corruption affect the military industry and how is it different from other industries?
• New challenges and opportunities in today's business and society transformations including globalization and digitalization
• How can actors best deal with inherent tensions between policy compliance and achievement of intended goals in a global, dynamic business environment?
• What are implications of wrongdoing and organizational responses to wrongdoing for organizational legitimacy?
• Are ESG initiatives having an impact on organizational and societal corruption?
• How can corruption and wrongdoing be overcome in the global value chains?
• How does the recent trend toward mandatory public regulation of corruption and human rights issues in global value chains affect the role of public, private, and societal actors?
• When and how does the increased digitalization of current societies represent an opportunity for anti-corruption efforts?
• When and how does the increased digitalization of current societies offer novel opportunities for organizational corruption and wrongdoing?
• How is digitalization affecting the ways in which we can investigate corruption in current societies?
• What potential does big data bring in observing corruption and wrongdoing?
• How can configurational approaches generate new insights in the fight against corruption and wrongdoing?
• New types pressures, collaborations, and dynamics across analytical levels
• How do today's business and society transformations affect the collective governance of corruption and wrongdoing across the world?
• How and why does the current trend towards public regulation of global supply chains affect the role of public versus private actors in governing wrongdoing?
• What are the processes of corruption or other wrongdoing across different levels of analysis, and why do they change over time?
• When, how, and why do small instances of corruption become institutionalized over time?
• How do corrupt networks evolve and how can they be overcome?
• Might some actors facilitate their own change and growth as they sacrifice compliance for goal achievement, and if so, why?
• Are some firms more susceptible to this?
• How are sovereign wealth or pension funds ESG initiatives impacting the anti-corruption fight?

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