ABSTRACT

Corruption is one of the most troubling societal challenges facing businesses today. Businesses have been combating corruption in fragmented ways, sometimes by creating anti-corruption policies applicable to certain stakeholders and, at other times, by harnessing digital technologies. Recently, the power of blockchain, with its capacity to provide full transactional disclosure and thereby reduce uncertainty, insecurity, and ambiguity in transactions, has been touted as being a game changer in the fight against corruption. Based on a study of the global shipping industry, we find that blockchain mitigates both process and document-related corruption. Based on these findings, we develop an understanding of how corruption may be combated using both social and digital/informational resources, including blockchain technology. Our model, drawing on past work on corruption, shows the complex interplay between identity, institutional actors, technical and other resources, and practices, and we develop conditions that could be effective in fighting corruption by using technologies such as blockchain.

摘要

腐败是当今企业面临的最令人不安的社会挑战之一。企业一直在以分散的方式打击腐败，有时通过制定适用于某些利益相关者的反腐败政策，有时通过利用数字技术。最近，区块链的力量能够提供完整的交易披露，从而减少交易中的不确定性、不安全性和模糊性，被吹捧为反腐败斗争中的游戏规则改变者。基于对全球航运业的研究，我们发现区块链可以减轻流程和文件相关的腐败。基于这些发现，我们了解了如何使用社会和数字/信息资源（包括区块链技术）打击腐败。我们的模型，