@techreport{GrafLambsdorff2008organization,
abstract = {Governments and private firms try to contain corruption among their staff mostly in a top-down, rules-based approach. They limit discretion, increase monitoring or impose harsher penalties. Principles-based, bottom-up approaches to anticorruption, instead, emphasize the importance of value systems and employee's intrinsic motivation. This embraces the invigorating of social control systems, encouraging whistle-blowing, coding of good practice and alerting to red flags. This paper investigates how some top-down measures run counter to bottom-up contributions. Examples range from penalties imposed with zero-tolerance, debarment or the nullity of contracts. While top-down elements are indispensable for containing corruption they must be designed well in order to avoid discouraging the bottom-up endeavors.},
address = {Passau},
author = {Johann Graf Lambsdorff},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D73; K42; 330; Corruption; whistle-blowing; contract penalties; debarment; nullity},
language = {eng},
number = {V-57-08},
publisher = {Univ. Passau, Wirtschaftswiss. Fak.},
title = {The organization of anticorruption: Getting incentives right!},
type = {Passauer Diskussionspapiere: Volkswirtschaftliche Reihe},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55006},
year = {2008}
}
