Purpose

This study aims to examine the relationship between cultural distances between countries and their scores in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which is the most commonly used measure of corruption in international business (IB) research.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors applied fixed-effect (generalized least squares) statistical modeling technique to analyze 1,580 year-country observations.

Findings

The authors found that the CPI score is determined to a large extent by cultural distances between countries, specifically the distance to the USA and to Denmark.

Research limitations/implications

CPI is often used as a sole measure of state-level corruption in IB research. The results show that the measure is significantly influenced by cultural differences and hence it should be applied with great caution, preferably augmented with other measures.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to look at cultural distances as determinants of CPI score. The authors empirically test whether the CPI is culturally biased.

中文翻译：

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我们离理解腐败还有多远？文化距离对腐败感知的影响

目的

本研究旨在检验国家之间的文化距离与其在腐败感知指数 (CPI) 中的得分之间的关​​系，该指数是国际商业 (IB) 研究中最常用的腐败衡量标准。

设计/方法/方法

作者应用固定效应（广义最小二乘）统计建模技术来分析 1,580 年的国家观察。

发现

作者发现，CPI 分数在很大程度上取决于国家之间的文化距离，特别是与美国和丹麦的距离。

研究限制/影响

在 IB 研究中，CPI 通常被用作衡量州级腐败的唯一指标。结果表明，该措施受到文化差异的显着影响，因此应谨慎应用，最好与其他措施一起使用。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这是第一项将文化距离视为 CPI 得分决定因素的研究。作者通过实证检验 CPI 是否存在文化偏见。