When is a Bribe a Bribe? Teaching a Workable Definition of Bribery
This paper presents an outline forteaching about bribery. The outline is based onthe presumption that a payment, once defined asa ``bribe'' is by definition unethical. Inaddition, the paper develops a simple yetworkable definition of bribery based on theprincipal-agent framework. The idea...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2002
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Teaching business ethics
Année: 2002, Volume: 6, Numéro: 2, Pages: 199-217 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Business Ethics
B principal-agent problem B Bribery |
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| Résumé: | This paper presents an outline forteaching about bribery. The outline is based onthe presumption that a payment, once defined asa ``bribe'' is by definition unethical. Inaddition, the paper develops a simple yetworkable definition of bribery based on theprincipal-agent framework. The idea is that anypayment made to a principal, for any purpose,is not by definition a bribe; however, anypayment made to an agent is a bribe if theagent retains the payment. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-1944 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Teaching business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1015261222138 |
