Crime prevention effect of anti-corruption programs - German companies in the conflict between national and organizational culture -

到目前为止，在打击腐败的背景下，关于以诚信为导向的企业文化的有效性和德国公司在外国文化腐败市场的反腐败措施的有效性，尚未获得任何重要知识。可以假定，在特别容易腐败的文化及其普遍的日常和专业做法以及德国遵约制度的预防效果之间存在相互作用。作为当前项目的一部分，收集的有关德国母公司外国分支机构非德国管理人员的数据表明，德国公司非常成功地将在德国建立的以价值为基础的合规制度传递给海外分支机构。然而，外国分支机构的反腐败方案确实存在效力丧失的情况。根据目前可用的数据，不可能确定这种效力丧失的原因。继续开展研究项目的目的是调查和分析选定的文化及其在日常和职业生活中的腐败做法对反腐败方案的效力以及德国公司在海外的企业文化的影响。本研究以在俄罗斯、中国和印度经营的德国公司为研究对象，以德国为参照国。根据该项目以前的经验，这些国家的实地工作是有保障的。在这四个国家，不仅德国公司内部的人将接受调查，而且还将从专业人群中进行类似的随机抽样。对于这两个群体，将使用从当前研究中挑选的有效问卷，并辅之以来自国际文化研究的与腐败有关的维度，以及关于日常和职业生活中典型的当地做法的问题。使用匹配技术，在德国公司接受调查的人将与在特定当地人群中接受调查的人在职业和日常生活中感受到的腐败方面进行比较。通过预期的研究，该项目不再局限于分析企业文化在德国文化界的重要性，而是现在打算果断地调查一个国家的文化以及特定地区的日常和职业生活对一家公司的影响。通过这样做，腐败研究将翻开新的一页：外部影响对企业内部反腐计划有效性的重要性如何？这个问题尤其影响到位于外国、腐败多发的社会和文化环境中的公司。

As yet, no significant knowledge has been gained within the context of fighting corruption about the effectiveness of integrity-oriented corporate cultures and anti-corruption measures of German companies in the corrupt markets of foreign cultures. It is to be assumed that interactions exist among the particular corruption-prone cultures and their prevalent daily and professional practices and the preventive effects of German compliance systems. The data collected as part of the current project pertaining to non-German managers in foreign branch offices of German parent companies indicate that German companies are quite successful in transmitting the value-based compliance systems established in Germany to the branches abroad. However, loss of effectiveness in the anti-corruption programmes at foreign branch offices does exist. It is not possible to identify the cause for this loss of effectiveness based on the data currently available. The continuation of the research project intends to investigate and analyse the influence of selected cultures and their corruption practices in daily and professional life on the effectiveness of anti-corruption programmes and the corporate culture of German companies abroad. This research question is to be investigated in terms of German companies operating in Russia, China and India with Germany as the reference country. Access to the field in these countries is guaranteed based on previous experience with the project. In these four countries, not only will persons within German companies be surveyed, but also a comparable random sample from the professional population. For both groups, selected validated questionnaires from the current study will be used, supplemented by corruption-relevant dimensions from international cultural research and by questions about typical local practices in daily and professional life. Using a matching technique, those surveyed at German companies are to be compared with those surveyed in the particular local population regarding perceived corruption in professional and daily life. With the intended research, this project no longer limits itself to analysing the significance of corporate culture within German cultural circles, but rather now intends to decisively investigate what influence a countrys culture and the daily and professional life of a particular region have on a company. By doing this, a new page in corruption research will open: What importance can be accorded to external influences on the effectiveness of internal corporate anti-corruption programmes? This question particularly affects companies located in a foreign, corruption-prone social and cultural environment.