Purpose

This paper aims to determine the underlying structural foundations that explain why mega (large-scale) corruption exists in an ever-more sophisticated form and how and why the phenomenon remains an intractable threat to global socio-economic stability and sustainable development.

Design/methodology/approach

Post-colonial theory is used along with critical perspectives on corruption in international business. The paper privileges the decolonization of the current paradigm where “hegemonic orthodoxy” is maintained and enforced through domesticated criticism of corruption in academic literature and in the media.

Findings

The author explains the foundations of “International mega-Corruption Incorporated” (ImC Inc.) and concludes that apart from being the results of greed and criminal intent, it is a designed and weaponized violent instrument for undermining human progress. ImC Inc. occurs through resource control and the manipulation of institutions. Thus, the same theories, the same analyses and the same media exposés on the “pandemic of ImC Inc.” are followed by the same inactions or lacklustre interventions that ignore the powerful international financial institutions serving as the major facilitators.

Social implications

The nature of ImC Inc. as an existential threat requires mass awareness about its historicity and deep-seated influence on institutions, in order for stakeholders to form a countervailing power to proactively disrupt it in its complexity and in contextually meaningful ways.

Originality/value

This paper provides useful clarifications about specific factors that determine how ImC Inc. exists and thrives in its current form and how to deploy sweeping, corrective and pre-emptive interventions rather than reactionary policies against ImC Inc.

中文翻译：

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国际大型腐败公司：对可持续发展的结构性暴力

目的

本文旨在确定解释为什么特大（大规模）腐败以越来越复杂的形式存在的潜在结构基础，以及这种现象如何以及为什么仍然对全球社会经济稳定和可持续发展构成棘手的威胁。

设计/方法/方法

后殖民理论与国际商业腐败的批判观点一起使用。该论文优先考虑通过对学术文献和媒体中腐败的驯化批评来维持和实施“霸权正统”的当前范式的非殖民化。

发现

作者解释了“国际大型腐败公司”（ImC Inc.）的基础，并得出结论，除了贪婪和犯罪意图的结果之外，它还是一种旨在破坏人类进步的设计和武器化的暴力工具。ImC Inc. 通过资源控制和机构操纵而发生。因此，相同的理论、相同的分析和相同的媒体对“ImC Inc. 的流行病”进行了曝光。其次是同样的无所作为或干预乏力，无视作为主要推动者的强大国际金融机构。

社会影响

ImC Inc. 作为生存威胁的性质要求大众意识到其历史性和对机构的根深蒂固的影响，以便利益相关者形成一种反制力量，以主动破坏其复杂性和具有上下文意义的方式。

原创性/价值

本文对决定 ImC Inc. 如何以当前形式存在和发展的具体因素以及如何部署全面、纠正和先发制人的干预措施而不是针对 ImC Inc. 的反动政策提供有用的澄清。