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 …