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Bribery and the Grey Areas of Morality

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Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ((LIME,volume 68))

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Depending on legal jurisdictions, legislators deal with bribery in a very different way. The basis components of bribery as social construct will be unveiled. Believing that there are grey areas of morality within bribery issues is embracing a mythical mindset. Cassirer’s approach of myths could be used to unveil the basic structure of mythical beliefs. If the notion of grey areas of morality in bribery issues is a mythical idea, then strategies to fight corruption cannot remain the same.

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  1. Chairholder of the CIBC Research Chair in Financial Integrity, Faculté d’administration, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Michel Dion

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  1. Faculté d'administration, Chairholder of CIBC Res.Chair in Fin.Int, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Michel Dion

  2. Faculte de Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    David Weisstub

  3. ESSEC, Institute for Strategic Innovation & Ser, Suresnes, France

    Jean-Loup Richet

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Dion, M. (2016). Bribery and the Grey Areas of Morality. In: Dion, M., Weisstub, D., Richet, JL. (eds) Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32419-7_12

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