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Business Ethics, Countermeasures, and Transnational Trends: A Focus on Distribution Corporations

  • Kim, Taek
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study aims to eradicate and halt the continuous life cycle of corruption. Only when ethical management policies are implemented can the business ethics system be effective and transparent. Research design, data, and methodology - The analyses and legislative measures designed by these organizations and countries were based on solid research, uncovered during my visits and interviews conducted with businessmen in those countries. Results - The main focus of in this study is as follows: First, to introduce the programs of UN, OECD, OAS, USA, and Asian countries noted for business ethics and transparency policies; Second, to define each function and problem of these countries' anti-corruption systems, including the U.S. federal government, and to examine Chinese trends. Conclusions - Ethical managements are necessary to improve business ethics. This study suggests four related areas for the purpose of discouraging bribery and corruption; these are improving global corporate governance standards, increasing financial transparency, improving good governance in the public service of the OECD member countries, and focusing on not only the supply side but also the demand side of the corruption market.

Study on Improvement for Information System Installation for e-Government's Internal Control through Legal Review : Focused on Barum e-System (전자정부의 내부통제를 위한 정보시스템 도입에 있어서 제도적 개선방안에 관한 연구 : 바름 e 시스템을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Dong Han;Lee, Ook
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.179-193
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    • 2013
  • E-Government refers to government to use ICT (information and communications technology) to work more effectively, share information and deliver better services to the public. With ICT, e-Government has increased transparency of governments. However even there has been much trial for transparency, corruption has been growing with the form of e-corruption. While external threats such as hackers and viruses can have serious consequences, currently most crime involving emerging technology is carried out by insiders i.e. employees in the e-government. Among the many tools being developed to fight e-corruption, there has been much focus lately on internal control system. So, South Korea developed and test-operated "Barum e-system" for internal control last year. This research establishes legal basis, information system link and privacy policy for settlement of this information system through legal review.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANTI-CORRUPTION OPERATING SYSTEM ON CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENTS IN KOREA

  • Jee-Hye Kim;Kwang-Seop Lee;Kyung-Rai Kim;Hee-Sung Cha;Dong-Woo Shin
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.1106-1111
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    • 2005
  • The present Korean laws related to anti-corruption are not effective in preventing corruptions[1]. In this context, the purpose of this study is to build the proactive anti-corruption operating system that has the function to prevent corruptions from occurring in the contract and procurement sector of Korean public construction projects. The proactive anticorruption operating system consists of four parts ; developing integrity performance manual(IPM), making integrity performance plan(IPP), practicing IPP, and integrity performance evaluation(IPE). By analyzing various kinds of audits and relevant laws and interviewing with government officials and staff in construction companies, the causes and stereotypes of corruptions and the concept, role, and guide of IPM, IPP, and IPE are provided in this paper.

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Traditional Donors in Good Governance and Corruption: Analysis on 43 African Recipients (굿 거버넌스 전통 공여국 원조와 부패: 아프리카 43개국 분석연구)

  • Kim, Da Sul;Chang, Hyeyoung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2019
  • This study analyzes the relationship between OECD DAC aid and recipients' corruption based on the good governance discussion. The study applies a fixed-effect model and PCSE model with a dataset of 43 African countries' corruption perception index, World Bank data, Polity IV, and OECD DAC aid statistics between 2000 and 2014. A statistical analysis confirmed that OECD DAC aid has a negative impact on corruption in African countries. DAC's aid affects negatively to corruption in African countries, especially in countries where democracy has matured. This research suggests that a more comprehensive follow-up study of the OECD DAC's good governance-oriented aid. Simultaneously, the general democratic effect on the recipients' institutions could not be applied in African countries, when considering regional peculiarities.

Adolescents' Political Trust in Asian Societies: The Roles of Authoritarian Orientations and Corruption Perception (권위주의적 성향과 부패에 대한 인식이 아시아 청소년의 정치적 신뢰에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyungryeol
    • Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.23-52
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    • 2018
  • This study examines factors that influence adolescents' political trust in Asian societies with special emphases on authoritarian orientations and corruption perception. Previous studies on adolescents' political trust have focused almost exclusively on Western societies. As a result, the impact of other cultural values that are specific to Asian societies, such as authoritarian orientations, on adolescents' political trust has received little attention in the existing literature. Moreover, situated within a socialization framework which argues that political trust is an extension of interpersonal trust, much prior work has ignored the role of adolescent evaluations of institutional performance in generating political trust. The data I use offer empirical evidence that both authoritarian orientations and institutional performance-especially its ability to curb corruption-are independent sources of political trust among Asian adolescents and that the trust-eroding effect of corruption is less salient among Asian adolescents adopting more authoritarian orientations. Additionally, the evidence also suggests that corruption perception is a more important factor than authoritarian orientations in shaping adolescents' political trust in more economically developed countries while the reverse pattern is found in less developed countries.

A Study on Factors Affecting Foreign direct Investment in Korea -Focused on Hofstede's Culture Dimensions and CPI Index- (한국의 외국인직접투자에 영향을 주는 요인에 관한 연구 - 문화적 차원과 부패인식지수를 중심으로-)

  • Choi, A-Reum;Koo, Jee-Hyun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2017
  • This study examined the factors influencing foreign direct investment(FDI) in OECD countries where Korea is a target country. The differences in the cultural distances of host and home countries and the difference in the perceptions of corruption have been used to identify the factors affecting foreign direct investment. As a result of the study, it was found that there are differences in foreign direct investment according to cultural dimension and corruption perceptions index. Foreign direct investment may increase or decrease depending on the cultural tendency and the higher the perceptions of corruption, the more active the investment. The smaller the power distance between host country and home country in the factors affecting foreign direct investment, the larger the number of investments and the larger the size of individualism versus collectivism. Foreign direct investment increased when the investing country's corruption perceptions index was high. The results of this study confirm that cultural and corruption perceptions can affect trade transactions. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the cultural tendency and the cultural distance in the trade transaction by confirming that the degree of culture and corruption perceptions can affect the trade transaction. And that it can influence trade and economic growth by appropriately managing social variables such as public corruption.

A Study on Strategies for Enhancing Transparency of Domestic Construction Industry through Foreign Cases (해외사례를 통한 국내 건설산업의 투명성 제고에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Hyeon Seok;Park, Hyung Keun;Lee, Young Soo
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.32 no.3D
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2012
  • The interrelation of integrity degree and country competitive power was known as high. But, according to the CPI announcement of Transparency International, the domestic Corruption Perceptions Index ranked 5 points, as being corrupt. It was investigated that the corruption level of Korea was getting worse most in the construction sector. In this way, it is emergent and inevitable to improve the transparency in the construction industry, accounting for 25-54% of the total corruption cases in our society. Transparency International has opened to the public the source data, utilized in the CPI measures in 2010. In the case of Korea, the 9 data of 6 organizations were utilized. According to the PERC, the corruption level of the private sector in Korea has been estimated as the worst among the 16 countries. In this context, this paper analyses the corruption level of Korea by utilizing the source data of the Transparency International CPI. And it aims to comprehend structural problems in the construction industry and to suggest implicative countermeasures through out the anti-corruption activities in the world. It propose finally an improvement of the structural causes in the construction industry, a promotion of effective punishment against corrupt practices, a reinforcement of the transparency management in the construction sector, etc.

Political Instability and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: The Perspective of Government Corruption from an Emerging Economy (정치적 불안정과 외국인 직접 투자: 신흥국 정부부패의 관점)

  • Bokhari, Syed Asad Abbas;Aftab, Muhammad;Shahid, Manzoor
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.69-81
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    • 2021
  • Pakistan is a South Asian auspicious developing country. Based on the corruption perception index report 2020 by transparency international, Pakistan has ranked 124 with total scores of 31 globally and 188 ranks with a score of -2.25 in terms of political stability ranging from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest). More crucially, the inflow of foreign direct investment toward Pakistan has declined between 2008 and 2019. Though political instability and government corruption have both positive and negative linear relationships with foreign direct investment, we tested the moderating impact of government corruption between political instability and inward foreign direct investment over time. We also tested the relationship between political instability and inward foreign direct investment in different phases of political regimes in the same country. Our results suggested that authoritarian regimes attracted more inward foreign direct investment than that during democratic periods of government. Furthermore, we found that there was low inward foreign direct investment when government corruption was high in the country. However, government corruption weakened the positive relationship between political instability and inward foreign direct investment (FDI).

Problems on Examining the Electronic Records in Letter of Credit Transactions (신용장거래에서 전자기록의 심사에 따른 문제점에 관한 고찰 - e-Nego 시스템과 전자선화증권을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Chang-Sook;Kang, Won-Jin
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.85-107
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    • 2010
  • A comprehensive electronic trade portal such as the electronic bills of lading, e-negotiations and so on, is developed by the Korea Ministry of Knowledge Economy and International Trade Association and serviced by KTNET. The portal, so called u-TradeHub, formally started to provide its services on 22nd May, 2009. If the shipper issues electronic bills of lading, the negotiating bank examines it through the established e-Nego system. However, the issuing bank overseas cannot examine the electronic bills of lading, because any interactive system does not exist. So, after the e-Nego, the electronic bills of lading gets automatically transformed into the paper-type electronic bills of lading and issuing bank examine paper B/L. In process of examining documents, the beneficiary using electronic means in letter of credit transactions may face some risks such as the corruption to the electronic bill of lading after its issuance by the carrier, the corruption after e-Nego and the corruption after the presentation to the issuing bank. In this paper, we studied the problems on corruptions to occur in the middle of the examination process of the electronic bills of lading and suggestions how to solve them are discussed.

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A Qualitative Study on the Fire Officials Inter Integrity (소방공무원의 내부청렴도에 관한 질적 연구)

  • Chae, Jin;Woo, Seong-Cheon
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.107-114
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    • 2010
  • Corruption in public offices can lead to corruption in overall society. Moreover, it can also result in steady growth of social expense caused by distrust in direct public relations of civil society administration. In order to devise a more comprehensive measure against corruption, it is essential to evaluate internal organization. This study suggests a scheme for improvement on fire officers' inter integrity, researched by in-depth interview. According to the study, there are numerous conventional corporate cultures remaining in the organization which fire officers are mutually trying to create reasonable and democratic corporate cultures. Furthermore, it was found out that structural issues of the organization, such as guaranteed anonymity of corruption prevention system, closed budget, et cetera, are the mostly dissatisfactory factors other than individual matters of the organizational members.