Research On The Mechanism Of Individual Corruption Within Enterprise

Systematic and persistent corruption becomes a strange phenomenon in enterprises,the corruption incidents of internal members of the enterprise often appear in news reports.The focus of corruption research is also transferred from the corruption of government officials to corruption within the enterprise.However,the existing research has not yet clearly concerned about the phenomenon of individual corruption within enterprise,that is,employees in the enterprise,for the purpose of personal interests,engage in activities that damage the interests of the organization using organizationial responsibilities or power.Academic and practical circles lack systematic understanding of the concept,form and type of individual corruption in enterprise,but also did not explore the basic problem that "Why does corruption within an enterprise happen?".Therefore,this article explores the mechanism of individual corruption within enterprise from the perspective of enterprise internal institutions(including regulative institutions and normative institutions),which is divided into two research questions:(1)What is the type of individual corruption in the enterprise?(2)What is the mechanism of individual corruption in the enterprise due to the internal institutions?Based on the content analysis of the second-hand literature and the grounded theory analysis of the first-hand interview data,the main conclusions of this study include:((1)The dimensions of corruption within enterprise include two types: economic corruption and relational corruption;(2)Based on the perspective of enterprise internal institutions,there are two mechanisms about the emergence of economic corruption:? the loopholes of internal regulative institutions of the enterprise lead to the emergence of corruption opportunities,the cost-benefit analysis of this opportunity by the organization members is one of the mechanisms of corruption,and organization members will be engaged in economic corruption if the proceeds are greater than the cost;? The standardization of the above-mentioned economic corruption leads to the formation of normativeinstitution within the enterprise that acquiesces in this behavior.These normative institutions will encourage internal members to use rationalization mechanism to prove the rationality of engaging in this type of corruption and eventually embed it into organizational positions or roles,as an unwritten norm or open secret of the role,and led to the economic corruption continue to produce.(3)There are two mechanisms about the emergence of relational corruption from the perspective of enterprise internal institutions:? Changes or adjustments in the internal regulative institutions bring uncertainty to their own interests of the internal members.In order to avoid the threat of the uncertainty to their interests,internal members may engage in relational corruption to seek greater power to circumvent this uncertainty;?Social level circle cultural logic leads internal members of the enterprise to form a variety of small circles,and a variety of human exchanges exists in the interpersonal communication of the members in the small circle.Relational corruption is embedded in this interpersonal communication.It is hoped that the research conclusions will provide suggestions for managers to make corruption control decisions.