Abstract The previous literature has extensively examined the effect of firm-level bribery on firm performance but not through on-the-job training. This paper investigates impact paying bribes firm’s investment decisions in training and offers mediating implications corruption performance. We empirically examine relationship between using data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys consisting a sam...

Although scholars have long been interested in distinguishing gift giving from bribery, the impact of degree guanxi between a giver and recipient on this distinction remains unclear. Drawi...

Developing countries suffer from shortages of electricity, posing a severe problem for industrial firms and giving them considerable incentives to access electricity resources through bribery. We investigate how firms’ revenues, sales productivity are affected by payments bribes obtain connections. use ordinary least squares (OLS), quantile instrumental variable (IV) regression analysis. OLS es...