What exactly is Collective Action? How can Collective Action combat corruption? Find out in the first of this 5-part series of insights featuring some of the world's leading Collective Action experts.
Featuring: Mark Pieth (University of Basel), Robert Klitgaard (Claremont Graduate University), Soji Apampa (Convention on Business Integrity), Susanne Friedrich (Alliance for Integrity), Hentie Dirker (SNC-Lavalin) and Lisa Miller (World Bank Group).
The Basel Institute is delighted about and welcomes the Wolfsberg Group's endorsement of the United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce Mansion House Declaration. This is a significant step in gaining the active support of the financial sector in combating the multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade.
The Basel Institute is the implementing partner of the intelligence-sharing mechanism of the United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce, a groundbreaking initiative of the Royal Foundation.
As integrity risks exist throughout the public procurement process, a holistic approach for risk mitigation and corruption prevention is needed. Focusing integrity measures solely on one step in the process may increase risks in other stages. Similarly, addressing only one type of risks may give leeway to integrity violations through other mechanisms. For example, administrative compliance measures in the bidding phase do not root out the risk for political interference in the identification of needs.
Anchored in the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, this report is about using better corporate governance to fight corporate misconduct. The report takes stock of corporate practices tying business integrity considerations into corporate governance frameworks, strategy and operations. It also assesses what factors influence business decisions to implement business integrity measures in practice.
This report focuses on:
This document provides an in-depth look into the Siemens Compliance System. It examines how it has been developed, what elements it consists of and what Siemens is doing on an ongoing basis to further develop it.
A growing body of research argues that anticorruption efforts often fail because of a flawed theoretical foundation, where collective action theory is said to be a better theoretical lens for understanding corruption than the dominant principal-agent theory. We unpack this critique and advance four new arguments.
This set of case stories was gathered in relation to implementation of the 10th United Nations Global Compact Principle against corruption.
Chapter 2C deals with Collective Action. It contains the following articles and case stories:
The B20 leads engagement with G20 governments on behalf of the international business community. In 2014, the B20 focused on developing a set of clear, actionable recommendations that drive global economic growth and create jobs.
In this report, the B20 Anti-Corruption Working Group examined corruption risk issues across the four B20 taskforces:
Drawn up by the B20 Cross-Thematic Group on Responsible Business Conduct & Anti-Corruption, this policy paper sets out the following recommendations:
Recommendation 1: Establish Beneficial Ownership Transparency – G20 members should increase their efforts to implement beneficial ownership transparency so that risks related to the ultimate owner(s) can be identified.
The myriad of existing anti-corruption principles for business can be confusing, especially for small- to medium-sized enterprises with limited resources. To address this challenge, the Anti-Corruption Ethics and Compliance Handbook has been developed by companies, for companies, with assistance from the OECD, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the World Bank.