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International clubs can be important mechanisms for achieving change in business practices and norms. This paper focuses on clubs aiming at reducing the risks that bribery and corruption pose to companies. It outlines important conditions for success, relating to costs of joining, benefits of membership, and monitoring of compliance with club rules. Moreover, the article argues that, where clubs are international, companies that operate in a highly corrupt context can use the club to make switch to a different set of norms, since the clubs make it worthwhile to eschew local practices and embrace new norms. As such, clubs help to accelerate social change in difficult contexts.
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When I interview business people in areas where corruption is the norm, they really struggle with how to move away from that norm without losing business - or even their livelihoods. They might want to 'go clean' but see it as impossible, or foolhardy, if nobody else does. The article shows how clubs can help companies and individuals to overcome that collective action problem.
Dr Elizabeth David-Barrett
University of Sussex
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This page is a summary of: Business unusual: collective action against bribery in international business, Crime Law and Social Change, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10611-017-9715-1.
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