This article empirically studies why manufacturing firms bribe the government officials. Firm-level data focusing on … country-level data from multiple sources. We then studied both firm-level and country-level reasons why firms bribe and how …

Purpose: Corruption, which includes payments of bribes to government officials, poses a serious impediment to the …, culture and decision making to predict whether and to what extent small business owners bribe government officials. Design …-side of corruption. It also explains how the lens of anomie theory leads to a better understanding of the mechanism of action …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

In recent years the topic of corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of … substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of corruption. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals … using the World Values Survey wave III (1995-1997), investigating the justifiability of corruption. The major aim in the …

In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of …