ABSTRACT This article argues in favour of a systematic approach to corporate liability for all bribery offences, including commercial bribery. Australia’s Banking Royal Commission and numerous international corruption scandals have demonstrated a ‘culture of corruption’ in our corporations. Australia has taken steps to strengthen the laws that criminalise foreign bribery, but there has been less interest in addressing the legal approach to commercial bribery. This article uses a comparative methodology to demonstrate that many of the arguments in favour of strict liability for corporations in cases of public sector and foreign bribery can also be applied to commercial bribery. A comparison of anti-bribery laws across common-law jurisdictions (Australia, United Kingdom and United States) illustrates opportunities to streamline the legal approach. Streamlining the legal approach to corporate liability for all bribery offences, including commercial bribery, will simplify compliance and incentivise adoption of policies and practices aimed at reducing corrupt conduct in commercial transactions. This, in turn, will result in meaningful changes in corporate culture.

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贿赂的企业责任——有利于系统方法

摘要 本文主张对所有贿赂犯罪（包括商业贿赂）的公司责任采取系统的方法。澳大利亚的银行业皇家委员会和众多国际腐败丑闻已经证明了我们公司的“腐败文化”。澳大利亚已采取措施加强将外国贿赂定为刑事犯罪的法律，但对解决商业贿赂的法律方法兴趣不大。本文使用比较方法来证明，在公共部门和外国贿赂案件中支持公司严格责任的许多论点也可以适用于商业贿赂。对普通法司法管辖区（澳大利亚、英国和美国）反贿赂法的比较说明了简化法律方法的机会。简化对包括商业贿赂在内的所有贿赂犯罪的公司责任的法律方法，将简化合规性并鼓励采用旨在减少商业交易中腐败行为的政策和做法。反过来，这将导致企业文化发生有意义的变化。