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Purpose– Based on social identity theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore how detrimental allegations of corruption are to potential applicants' organizational attraction and how potential harm can be absorbed by choosing an appropriate response strategy.Design/methodology/approach– Experimental survey data were collected from 239 German employees likely to be in the job market again in their careers.Findings– Potential applicants are less attracted to allegedly corrupt organizations. Accepting the allegation and undertaking structural change, appealing to higher organizational goals, and denying the allegation appear to be effective organizational response strategies. A strategy concordant with the one potential applicants would choose if they themselves were confronted with an allegation of corruption fosters attraction.Research limitations/implications– The experimental design limits external validity. Future research should investigate whether the findings hold in a field setting where additional information about the organization and the potential job is available.Practical implications– The findings demonstrate the need for organizational corruption prevention efforts. If organizations face allegations of corruption, they should carefully consider how to respond, what they signal by the chosen response strategy, and what applicants they are therefore likely to attract.Social implications– The observed interactions between organizations and individuals underline the need for societal efforts in creating a societal anti-corruption climate.Originality/value– The study highlights the critical role of allegations of corruption, organizational response strategies, and concordance with individual response strategies regarding potential applicants' organizational attraction.

Korruption tritt in unserer Gesellschaft in unterschiedlichen Formen und in verschiedenen Bereichen auf. Wer sich mit der Frage beschäftigt, was Korruption ist, wird in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung auf viele Antworten treffen. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Antworten in komprimierter, leicht verständlicher Form und geordnet nach Disziplinen, die sich mit diesem Thema beschäftigen: Ökonomie, BWL/Managementwissenschaft, Strafrecht, Privatrecht, Geschichtswissenschaft, Verwaltungswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie, Psychologie und Kriminologie. Es genügt aber nicht, bei einer fachdisziplinären Definition von Korruption stehen zu bleiben. Insbesondere dann, wenn es um die Bekämpfung von Korruption oder den Aufbau von korruptionsfreien gesellschaftlichen Strukturen und Beziehungen geht, ist eine transdisziplinäre Analyse unabdingbar.Das Buch zeigt Verbindungen zwischen den fachspezifischen Ansätzen auf. Es verknüpft die Verschiedenartigkeit disziplinärer Analysen von Korruptionssachverhalten mit der Vielschichtigkeit des komplexen Korruptionsphänomens und fördert auf diese Weise ein differenziertes Verständnis von Korruption.

PurposeThe literature states that rationalization strategies contribute to a spread of corruption in organizations. They are supposed to serve not only as post hoc justifications but also as ex ante determinants of corrupt behavior. This empirical study aims at challenging this theoretical assumption.Design/methodology/approachThe authors gained empirical data in a business simulation game where participants had the opportunity to act corruptly. The sample included both university and high school students.FindingsThe results show that post hoc rationalizations primarily highlight the "positive" intention behind corrupt action. As relationships with important person‐based determinants of corruption are lacking, it is questionable whether rationalization strategies possess potential as ex ante determinants of corrupt behavior.Research limitations/implicationsThe design of the study only assesses rationalization strategies post hoc. Therefore it does not allow for examining causal effects, only the investigation of relationships. Future research should aim at addressing this issue, including both ex ante and post hoc assessment of rationalization strategies.Originality/valueThe paper is a first attempt to examine empirically the function of rationalization strategies in the context of corruption in organizations.

Organisational emergence is of key interest in organisational theory. Most of the present studies, however, analyse the emergence of changes in already existing phenomena such as, for example, how strategies or organisational routines are subject to change. In contrast, previous research in organisational theory has rarely addressed organisational emergence in essence (i.e., from scratch) and might benefit from looking beyond the confines of one's own discipline. To address this void, we draw on the case of digital emergent self-organised organisations as an exemplary form thereof. Emerging organisations in digital environments appear to be created much more spontaneously, and multiple processes occur simultaneously. So, probing into a digital environment allows us to get a fresh perspective on organisational emergence and to advance previous theorising by incorporating notions from the fields of leadership and entrepreneurship.