Document Type
Brief
Category
Integrity in Brief
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
What kind of an organizational culture do corrupt companies tend to have? To answer this question, I conducted a study based on a review of academic literature as well as in-depth interviews with 23 prominent lawyers, investigators, scholars, and policymakers with firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of dozens of corrupt firms. They highlighted a number of common traits often missed by standard compliance processes that might be “red flags” for organizational corruption. These traits don’t guarantee corruption within an organization, but they do point to the conditions in which it thrives.
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Alison Taylor,
What do Corrupt Firms Have in Common? Red Flags of Corruption in Organizational Culture,
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/77