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It has also given impetus to the narrative that anti-corruption compliance programmes are inevitably costly, potentially ineffective and bureaucratic. \n\nThis ignores many of the positive advances in compliance that have been made in recent years, as well as the growing body of evidence supporting the business case for compliance.\n\nThis Quick Guide covers five broad areas in which mature and well-constructed ethics and compliance systems can benefit businesses even in the face of an uncertain regulatory and enforcement framework. It is based on a roundtable convened by the Basel Institute on Governance and bilateral discussions with key figures in the business and anti-corruption community.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[20,54],"Private Sector",[29],"2025-03-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F9a75cbfc-a56c-4739-b683-d2122f94d9bc?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[60],{"url":61,"caption":62},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Quick%20Guide"," View all Quick Guides",[],[65,69],{"authors_id":66},{"id":67,"name":68},298,"Vanessa Hans",{"authors_id":70},{"id":71,"name":72},296,"Monica Guy",[],[75,79,83,87],{"tags_id":76},{"id":77,"name":78},830,"Business integrity",{"tags_id":80},{"id":81,"name":82},1274,"Ethics",{"tags_id":84},{"id":85,"name":86},1380,"Sustainability",{"tags_id":88},{"id":89,"name":90},859,"Corruption risks",[92],2436,[20,54,94],"Business Integrity Ethics and Compliance","03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","2025-03-25T17:05:22.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-06-02T14:08:52.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-39-business-integrity-and-ethics",{"id":101,"slug":102,"title":103,"status":6,"nid":104,"year":105,"body":106,"external":18,"topic":107,"language":110,"type":111,"date_published":112,"image":113,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":114,"link_external":117,"authors":121,"countries":126,"tags":127,"pdf":138,"topics":143,"featured":18,"languages":144,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":148,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":149,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":150},1866,"quick-guide-16-gold-laundering","Quick guide 16: Gold laundering",1532,2020,"Mark Pieth, President of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance and author of the book *Gold Laundering*, offers an insight into the risks of human rights and environmental harms in gold supply chains. Where are the risks and responsibilities?\n\nCollective Action with gold refiners, suppliers and other stakeholders, he concludes, can help to clean up the industry.\n\n*This work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.*",[108,20,109],"Anti-Money Laundering","Compliance","English, French, Portuguese, Spanish",[29],"2020-03-02","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fd74aee78-c3f6-4a54-9258-df73bdd72687?width=600&height=840",[115],{"url":61,"caption":116}," View all quick guides",[118],{"url":119,"caption":120},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=37"," View on LEARN (EN, ES, FR)",[122],{"authors_id":123},{"id":124,"name":125},302,"Mark Pieth",[],[128,132,136],{"tags_id":129},{"id":130,"name":131},932,"Human rights",{"tags_id":133},{"id":134,"name":135},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":137},{"id":77,"name":78},[139,140,141,142],1900,1901,1902,1903,[108,20,94],[15,145,146,147],"French","Portuguese","Spanish","2022-04-27T11:54:24.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:49.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-16-gold-laundering",{"id":152,"slug":153,"title":154,"status":6,"nid":155,"year":156,"body":157,"external":18,"topic":158,"language":110,"type":162,"date_published":163,"image":164,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":165,"link_external":167,"authors":168,"countries":173,"tags":174,"pdf":177,"topics":182,"featured":18,"languages":185,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":186,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":187,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":188},1878,"quick-guide-13-financial-crime-illegal-wildlife-trade","Quick Guide 13: Financial crime in illegal wildlife trade",1088,2019,"Every day, an unknown number of elephant tusks, rhino horn, pangolin scales and other wildlife products – alive and dead – cross the oceans in container ships and cargo flights for use in traditional medicine, crafts and the illegal pet trade. Rare trees are felled in ancient forests and shipped out under false certificates.\n\nThey leave behind the butchered carcasses of the last remaining animals of many species, scarred and emptied landscapes, legal livelihoods undermined by corruption and criminal activity, and communities ravaged by organised crime networks.\n\nThe Basel Institute is contributing to tackling \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fillegal-wildlife-trade\">illegal wildlife trade\u003C\u002Fa> and its negative impacts on communities, economies and biodiversity from the angle of financial crime. This quick guide by our Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives an insight into our approach and how our various areas of expertise fit together to help solve this complex puzzle.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[159,20,160,161],"Asset Recovery","Green Corruption","Public Governance",[29],"2019-11-26","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fca42d1bb-5040-496b-baee-d3e86a8b3de4?width=600&height=840",[166],{"url":61,"caption":62},[],[169],{"authors_id":170},{"id":171,"name":172},297,"Gretta Fenner",[],[175],{"tags_id":176},{"id":134,"name":135},[178,179,180,181],1918,1919,1920,1921,[183,20,160,184],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement","Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[15,145,146,147],"2022-04-27T11:54:32.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:51.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-13-financial-crime-illegal-wildlife-trade",{"id":140,"slug":190,"title":191,"status":6,"nid":192,"year":156,"body":193,"external":18,"topic":194,"language":15,"type":195,"date_published":196,"image":197,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":198,"link_external":206,"authors":207,"countries":212,"tags":213,"pdf":214,"topics":216,"featured":18,"languages":217,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":218,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":219,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":220},"quick-guide-3-integrity-and-anti-corruption-compliance-smes","Quick Guide 3: Integrity and anti-corruption compliance for SMEs",1078,"Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance and Collective Action, explains that anti-corruption compliance doesn’t have to be complicated. Even small and mid-sized companies can easily build the basics of an effective anti-corruption compliance programme.\n\nFind out five simple things a business leader can do to raise integrity in an organisation.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[20,109],[29],"2019-05-02","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F4d3fcbde-08d8-481a-abba-f84517acb61f?width=600&height=840",[199,202,203],{"url":200,"caption":201},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fgemma-aiolfi039s-quick-guide-to-integrity-and-anti-corruption-compliance-for-smes-902","View online",{"url":61,"caption":62},{"url":204,"caption":205},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fgemma-aiolfi-publishes-new-book-on-anti-corruption-compliance-a-guide-for-smes-1833"," View Gemma Aiolfi's book: Anti-Corruption Compliance: A Guide for SMEs",[],[208],{"authors_id":209},{"id":210,"name":211},289,"Gemma Aiolfi",[],[],[215],1952,[20,94],[15],"2022-04-27T11:54:48.000Z","2026-06-02T14:10:29.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-3-integrity-and-anti-corruption-compliance-smes",{"id":222,"slug":223,"title":224,"status":6,"nid":225,"year":51,"body":226,"external":18,"topic":227,"language":15,"type":230,"date_published":232,"image":233,"citation":234,"publisher":58,"link_internal":235,"link_external":239,"authors":240,"countries":249,"tags":250,"pdf":266,"topics":269,"featured":18,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":271,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":272,"main_points":7,"short_version":273,"subtitle":7,"link":274},2425,"wp-60","Working Paper 60: Understanding the enemy: Insights from corrupt networks to improve anti-corruption Collective Action initiatives",2867,"Corruption is not simply about individual misconduct. It is a networked phenomenon that arises from entrenched social, economic and political interactions. It is orchestrated through coordination between groups and clusters of individuals.\n\nThis Working Paper explores the networked nature of corruption and the opportunities this presents for anti-corruption efforts. The aim is to understand how shifting the unit of analysis from individuals to networks helps to understand the persistence and resilience of corruption, while opening up new anti-corruption perspectives.\n\nA meta-analysis of findings from more than 15 years of research on informal networks and corruption underpins the conceptualisation of corrupt networks. The paper argues that a focus on networks helps to shed light on the functionality of corruption – from petty bribery to large-scale public procurement fraud – and the underlying social norms that enable it.\n\nUnderstanding the structures, functions and modus operandi of the informal networks associated with corruption and applying the network logic to anti-corruption strategies can help to achieve better outcomes. The paper specifically looks at anti-corruption Collective Action initiatives, suggesting that these should emulate positive aspects of informal networks.\n\n### About this Working Paper\n\nThis paper is published as part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper series, ISSN: 2624-9650. You may share or republish it under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002Fdeed.en\">BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa> International Licence.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n\n",[20,228,229],"Prevention","Research and Innovation",[231],"Working Paper","2025-11-04","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F3fc6640b-79d3-481c-a74c-fc1979923c1b?width=600&height=840","Baez Camargo, Claudia, and Jacopo Costa. 2025. 'Understanding the enemy: Insights from corrupt networks to improve anticorruption Collective Action initiatives.'Working Paper 60, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-60\">baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-60\u003C\u002Fa>.",[236],{"url":237,"caption":238},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Working%20Paper"," View all Working Papers",[],[241,245],{"authors_id":242},{"id":243,"name":244},572,"Dr Claudia Baez Camargo",{"authors_id":246},{"id":247,"name":248},550,"Dr Jacopo Costa",[],[251,254,258,262],{"tags_id":252},{"id":253,"name":20},909,{"tags_id":255},{"id":256,"name":257},982,"Anti-corruption",{"tags_id":259},{"id":260,"name":261},1309,"Informality",{"tags_id":263},{"id":264,"name":265},967,"Organised crime",[267,268],2480,2481,[20,270],"Prevention Research and Innovation","2025-11-04T17:05:36.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:56.000Z","This Working Paper reflects on the networked nature of corruption and the\nlessons that can be learned from studying it. Particularly, it provides insights into\nthe opportunities and challenges of designing and implementing anti-corruption\nCollective Action initiatives.\n\nThe authors consider corruption not as a series of isolated acts by individuals,\nbut as the outcome of complex, resilient informal networks embedded within\nsocio-political, economic and cultural structures. Within this framework, they\ninvestigate how shifting the unit of analysis from individuals to networks can\nimprove our understanding of the persistence of corruption and create new\nperspectives to promote better anti-corruption outcomes and impacts.\n\nDrawing on over 15 years of empirical research across diverse countries and\nregions, the authors argue that corruption must be viewed through a network\nlens. This approach reveals how informal connections facilitate rule subversion,\nproblem-solving and goal achievement where formal institutions are weak or\nineffective.\n\nThe paper contends that a focus on networks sheds light on the functionality\nof corruption and the underlying social norms enabling corrupt exchanges.\nUnderstanding the structures, functions and modus operandi of the informal\nnetworks associated with corruption can help design better anti-corruption\ninitiatives.\n\nThe Working Paper contributes to the existing literature on corruption strategies\nand anti-corruption activities.\n\n**First**, the authors explore how **informal networks rooted in trust, reciprocity\nand social norms can serve practical functions**, including accessing public\nservices, boosting business profitability and winning elections. The strength\nof informal networks lies in their adaptability, internal organisation and\nembeddedness in local cultures.\n\nThe authors identify **six core roles in informal networks** that pursue corrupt\nobjectives: seekers, doers, brokers, facilitators, intermediaries and instigators.\nThe coordination and division of tasks among these six roles make such informal\nnetworks effective in achieving their goals.\n\nIn addition, the authors unpack **the most important strategies these corrupt\ninformal networks rely on** for their functioning. These strategies are:\n\n- co-optation (recruitment and trust building);\n- control (discipline and compliance);\n- camouflage (concealment and legitimacy); and\n- coordination (task orchestration and adaptability).\n\n**Second**, the authors set out **concrete implications for anti-corruption\nactivities** based on insights on how informal networks operate. They state that\ntraditional top-down, normative approaches often fail due to the functionality\nof corruption (i.e., corruption is always a means to an end) and the social\nembeddedness of corrupt networks.\n\nThe authors propose to apply the network logic to anti-corruption strategies. This\npaper particularly focuses on **Collective Action initiatives** and suggests that\nthese should emulate positive aspects of informal networks. Collective Action\nrefers to collaborative efforts – typically involving businesses, civil society and\u002For\npublic institutions – to tackle corruption risks and shared integrity challenges that\nno single actor can resolve alone.\n\nThis means that, to be effective, these Collective Action initiatives must be\nbased on:\n\n- **Functional goals:** Set short-term, tangible goals aligned with participants’ interests.\n- **Strategic co-optation:** Recruit key stakeholders strategically, including those who are prone to corruption risks, by using trust-building mechanisms that can supply an added value to the stakeholders.\n- **Transparency and accountability:** Leverage mechanisms of peer pressure and reputation management that can ensure sustained commitment and engagement among participants and deter free-riding strategies.\n\nIn conclusion, to foster integrity in today’s fragmented and conflict-prone world,\nanti-corruption initiatives generally must shift from targeting individuals to\ntargeting the networks that sustain corruption. Sustainable change requires\nlocally rooted, trust-based collective efforts that provide functional, credible and\ncoordinated alternatives to illicit networks.\n\nIn this sense, Collective Action initiatives built on conceptualising corruption\nas a networked problem can be an effective solution for achieving\nanti-corruption goals","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-60",{"id":276,"slug":277,"title":278,"status":6,"nid":279,"year":51,"body":280,"external":18,"topic":281,"language":15,"type":282,"date_published":284,"image":285,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":286,"link_external":287,"authors":291,"countries":296,"tags":297,"pdf":302,"topics":304,"featured":18,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":305,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":306,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":307},2418,"anti-corruption-collective-action-g20b20-process-charting-progress-2020-2024","Anti-corruption Collective Action in the G20\u002FB20 process: Charting progress 2020–2024",2845,"This report analyses the approaches of the previous five B20 presidencies to addressing anti-corruption Collective Action. It captures lessons learned and provides recommendations for future B20\u002FG20 cycles. It is primarily intended for upcoming B20\u002FG20 presidencies, B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force members and organisations engaging with the B20\u002FG20.\n\n### About this report\n\nYou may share or republish this report under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002Fdeed.en\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa> licence.\n\nSuggested citation: Scarlet Wannenwetsch. 2025. 'Anti-corruption Collective Action in the G20\u002FB20 process: Charting progress 2020–2024.' Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nThe report was funded by the Siemens Integrity Initiative, which supports organisations in the fight against corruption and fraud through Collective Action, education and training. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not reflect the position of Siemens or the Siemens Integrity Initiative.",[20,54],[283],"Report","2025-08-29","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F7f5abe00-7eca-48f7-a600-067f05b7871a?width=600&height=840",[],[288],{"url":289,"caption":290},"https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Fpublications\u002F1820"," Read related baseline report",[292],{"authors_id":293},{"id":294,"name":295},293,"Scarlet Wannenwetsch",[],[298,300],{"tags_id":299},{"id":256,"name":257},{"tags_id":301},{"id":253,"name":20},[303],2475,[20,54],"2025-09-08T21:17:14.000Z","2026-05-23T20:08:11.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fanti-corruption-collective-action-g20b20-process-charting-progress-2020-2024",{"id":309,"slug":310,"title":311,"status":6,"nid":312,"year":51,"body":313,"external":18,"topic":314,"language":15,"type":315,"date_published":317,"image":318,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":319,"link_external":320,"authors":357,"countries":364,"tags":365,"pdf":373,"topics":383,"featured":18,"languages":384,"summary":385,"programme":386,"area":387,"websites":389,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":391,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":392,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":393,"link":394},2407,"collective-action-practice-game-changer-business-integrity","Collective Action in practice: a game-changer for business integrity",2824,"At its core, Collective Action is a simple yet powerful concept: tackling corruption challenges together, rather than alone. Over the past two decades, anti-corruption Collective Action has grown from a niche idea to a recognised approach embedded in international standards, national strategies and corporate practices.\n\nThis book offers a comprehensive reflection on that journey and explores the growing impact of multi-stakeholder collaboration on promoting business integrity around the world. It aims to capture the living ecosystem of Collective Action as it exists today, its foundations, its progress and the possibilities it continues to offer for the future.\n\nDrawing on real-life examples, policy milestones and practical experiences from the Basel Institute on Governance and its partners, *Collective Action in practice: a game-changer for business integrity *presents how diverse actors have been working together to tackle corruption in complex environments.\n\n\n- **Part 1: Advancing the knowledge base** – presents the analytical tools and conceptual models that help us make sense of Collective Action in practice.\n- **Part 2: Mainstreaming Collective Action as a norm** – illustrates the growing recognition of Collective Action in international standards and policy frameworks. It also showcases the Institute’s International Collective Action Conference series and the Collective Action Awards.\n- **Part 3: Providing hands-on support** – focuses on the Basel Institute’s direct support to Collective Action practitioners and highlights the importance of peer learning.\n\n\n\n\n\n*Collective Action in practice: a game-changer for business integrity *was developed and published by the Basel Institute on Governance, with support from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.\n\n### About this publication\n\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>). Please credit the Basel Institute on Governance and link to: collective-action.com\n\nSuggested citation: Hocq, Nicolas, and Vanessa Hans. 2025. *Collective Action in practice: a game-changer for business integrity. Stories, evidence and inspiration from the Basel Institute on Governance*. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nISBNs are as follows:\n\n\n- PDF: 978-3-9526182-0-2\n- Paperback (forthcoming): 978-3-9526182-1-9\n\n### Download or view online\nScroll down for links to download the book or specific chapters, or flick through online below:",[20],[316],"Book","2025-06-30","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0dd71cde-39e7-4161-a90f-c7b90ebc2415?width=600&height=840",[],[321,324,327,330,333,336,339,342,345,348,351,354],{"url":322,"caption":323},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fenrol\u002Findex.php?id=168"," eLearning course: Collective Action Against Corruption",{"url":325,"caption":326},"https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002F"," Visit the B20 Collective Action Hub",{"url":328,"caption":329},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.co.uk\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.co.uk",{"url":331,"caption":332},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.com\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.com",{"url":334,"caption":335},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.ca\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.ca",{"url":337,"caption":338},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.de\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.de",{"url":340,"caption":341},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.fr\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.fr",{"url":343,"caption":344},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.es\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.es",{"url":346,"caption":347},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.it\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.it",{"url":349,"caption":350},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.nl\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.nl",{"url":352,"caption":353},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.pl\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.pl",{"url":355,"caption":356},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.se\u002Fdp\u002F3952618217","Amazon.se",[358,360],{"authors_id":359},{"id":67,"name":68},{"authors_id":361},{"id":362,"name":363},565,"Nicolas Hocq",[],[366,368,371],{"tags_id":367},{"id":256,"name":257},{"tags_id":369},{"id":370,"name":109},1236,{"tags_id":372},{"id":253,"name":20},[374,375,376,377,378,379,380,381,382],2458,2459,2460,2461,2462,2463,2464,2465,2466,[20],[15],"This book offers a comprehensive reflection on that journey and explores the growing impact of multi-stakeholder collaboration on promoting business integrity around the world. It aims to capture the living ecosystem of Collective Action as it exists today, its foundations, its progress and the possibilities it continues to offer for the future.",[54],[388],"Business Integrity & Governance",[20,390],"Main page","2025-07-03T09:59:40.000Z","2026-06-02T14:16:21.000Z","Stories, evidence and inspiration from the Basel Institute on Governance","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcollective-action-practice-game-changer-business-integrity",{"id":396,"slug":397,"title":398,"status":6,"nid":399,"year":51,"body":400,"external":18,"topic":401,"language":15,"type":402,"date_published":317,"image":403,"citation":14,"publisher":58,"link_internal":404,"link_external":406,"authors":407,"countries":419,"tags":420,"pdf":421,"topics":426,"featured":18,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":95,"date_created":427,"user_updated":97,"date_updated":428,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":429,"link":430},2417,"wp-57","Working Paper 57: Mapping and strengthening the evidence base for anti-corruption Collective Action",2804,"This Working Paper provides a theoretical and practical contribution to strengthening the evidence base for anti-corruption Collective Action – i.e. collaborative efforts by diverse actors from the private sector, civil society and public institutions to address integrity challenges that no single actor can resolve alone.\n\nIt combines a new conceptual framework for Collective Action initiatives, updated data and practical tools. Together, these will help researchers, practitioners and policymakers compare initiatives, test assumptions and design more effective collaborations.\n\nThe paper provides insights into how Collective Action works in practice; the impact of different social and political environments; how to link Collective Action with real-world improvements in corruption prevention; and whether initiatives’ activities are actually contributing to their stated goals.\n\n### About this report\n\nThis paper is made possible through the support of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.\n\nThe paper is published as part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper series, ISSN: 2624-9650. You may share or republish it under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002Fdeed.en\">BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa> International Licence.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n\nSuggested citation: Binder, Lucie, Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez and Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia. 2025. ‘Mapping and strengthening the evidence base for anti-corruption Collective Action: Models, metrics and insights.’ Working Paper 57, Basel Institute on Governance. 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It aims to:\n\n\n- spark new impetus for engagement;\n- open the concept to new stakeholders, topics and environments; and\n- support existing initiatives in developing their long-term visions and aims.\n\n\nIn addition to supporting practitioners, updating the typology will also help strengthen the case for Collective Action as a normative corruption prevention practice.\n\n### About this report\n\nThe paper is published as part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper series, ISSN: 2624-9650. You may share or republish it under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002Fdeed.en\">BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa> International Licence.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n\nSuggested citation: Wannenwetsch, Scarlet. 2025. ‘Anti-corruption Collective Action: A typology for a new era.’ Working Paper 56, Basel Institute on Governance. 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Assessing the effectiveness of these programmes has proven challenging and requires that companies go beyond a box-checking approach, set clear objectives, measure progress and impact and foster a culture of integrity.\n\nThis paper published by the OECD aims to support companies in their assessment efforts by taking stock of methodologies and tools − such as key performance indicators, culture surveys, data analytics, audits and peer learning − that companies use to assess and enhance the effectiveness of their anti-corruption programmes.\n\nDrawing on desk research and data collected by the OECD and the Basel Institute on Governance including in months of consultations with the private sector, this paper contributes to promoting strong anti-corruption norms and standards within the public and private sector.",[20,54],[283],"https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb6411703-5835-482b-94c9-8a0c50e97a03?width=600&height=840","OECD",[469],{"url":470,"caption":471},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fwhy-ethical-business-and-behaviour-are-key-to-resilience-in-volatile-times-2808"," Read our related blog",[473],{"url":474,"caption":475},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oecd.org\u002Fen\u002Fpublications\u002Fcompanies-assessments-of-anti-corruption-compliance_977ed5a8-en.html","View report on OECD website",[],[],[479],{"tags_id":480},{"id":81,"name":82},[],[20,54],"2025-06-03T16:05:34.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:53.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcompanies-assessments-anti-corruption-compliance",1780676589926]