From compliance to progress: Making sense of the governance of corruption in global business

Speakers

• Stefan Schembera, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Radboud University, Netherlands
• Andreas Georg Scherer, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

In their talk, Stefan Schembera and Andreas Georg Scherer will discuss the fundamental tensions involved in the governance of corruption in a global business environment with ever more frequent transactions across diverse institutional contexts. In particular, they will focus on the trade-off between enforcing organizational compliance and achieving social ends in the governance of corruption. To identify workable solutions, they will highlight the need of understanding the dynamics underlying the interactive communicative processes of sensemaking and negotiation involving actors across different institutional contexts. Their empirical findings show that achieving desirable social ends does not necessarily imply strictly following organizational rules. Even more so, in some cases a bureaucratic application of rules may even stand in the way of achieving social ends.
There will be room for discussing the participants’ experienced challenges in the governance of corruption and ways to overcome them.

Stefan Schembera is assistant professor of Business Administration at the Department of Business Administration at Radboud University. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich. His research focuses on organizational corruption, corporate social responsibility, organizational legitimacy, and the role of large and small multinational corporations in complex global governance contexts. His work has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and Business and Society.
Andreas Georg Scherer is a chaired professor of Business Administration at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He does research in business ethics, CSR, international management, and organization theory. He has published over twenty books, monographs, and special issues. In addition, his work has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Organization Studies.

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