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[Global Corruption Report 2007] International business attitudes to corruption
Bray, John
Bray, John
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"In mid-2006 Control Risks in association with Simmons & Simmons commissioned the fourth in a series of surveys on international business attitudes to corruption. The purpose of the survey was to analyse the contrasting experiences of companies from seven different jurisdictions, drawing on comparisons with the previous survey in 2002 (see Global Corruption Report 2004). IRB Ltd carried out the survey, and conducted a total of 350 telephone interviews with 50 companies in Brazil, France, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Brazil and France had not been covered in the 2002 survey. All respondents were senior decision-makers at or near board level, and all the companies operate internationally.2 Lost business The survey showed that corruption remains a major cost to international business: 43 per cent of respondents believed that their companies had failed to win a contract, or gain new business, because a competitor had paid a bribe in the previous five years. As many as a third believed they had lost business in this way in the previous 12 months. However, there were wide disparities between jurisdictions. In Hong Kong, 76 per cent of companies believed that they had failed to win international business because of bribery in the previous five years, and 66 per cent in the last year – giving it the worst result. Even in the United Kingdom a quarter of companies claimed they had lost business to bribery in the previous five years. In the United States, the Netherlands and Hong Kong there was a noticeable increase in the percentage of companies reporting lost business compared to 2002."(pg 335)
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2007
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9780521700702
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