Introducing the “Organizational Resilience against Corruption” As a New Concept in the Anti-Corruption Literature: Concept Analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Accounting, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

4 Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This article has aimed to propose the concept of "organizational resilience against corruption" as a new concept.

Nuopponen and Nasi’s target oriented method of concept analysis was used to form concept of organizational resilience against corruption through abductive and synthetic methods by using existing concepts and insights. For this purpose, data base of Google scholar, Science direct, Web of science, SID.ir and Ensani.ir have been searched to retrieve the related literature. Literature search was limited from 2000, with the keywords of corruption and organizational resilience. Then results were filtered by the keywords of anti, fight, combat, curb, reduce, prevent, control, resistance and corruption. Finally, after reading the abstract of articles, 39 of them deemed relevant to our study and were reviewed.

In this study, reducing corruption, anti-corruption, fighting/combating/curbing corruption, corruption prevention, corruption control and corruption resistance were identified as coordinate concepts of the organizational resilience against corruption. Anticipate, response, monitoring, legitimacy management, reintegration and learning were recognized as subordinate concepts of organizational resilience against corruption. Organizational resilience against corruption is a meta-capability of organizations and includes what the organizations should have and what should do before, during and after the corruption.

A resilient organization is also aware of corrupted events, corrupting processes, and organizational culture supporting corruption.

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