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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2002
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Teaching business ethics
Year: 2002, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-217 |
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Business Ethics
B principal-agent problem B Bribery |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Teaching business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1015261222138 |