Explaining the Corruption Diffusion in Public Organizations by Analyzing the Individual and Organizational Variables and Using the Bandwagon Effect

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 MSc., Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This inquiry has attempted to explain the diffusion of corruption in public organizations by the Bandwagon Effect and the individual and organizational factors that affect it. For this purpose, the qualitative approach has been pursued and the data has been collected using the interviews conducted with the employees of public organizations and organizational experts. Accordingly, Grounded Theory has been adopted as the methodology of the research through which the data has been analyzed in three phases: open coding, axial coding and selective coding. In open coding phase, the ideas of interviewees were conceptualized and categorized; in axial coding phase, the phenomenon, casual conditions, contexts, intervening conditions, action strategies and consequences were determined; finally, the relationships among these elements, the core category and the storyline of the corruption diffusion by the Bandwagon Effect were introduced in selective coding stage. In conclusion, the main questions of this inquiry are answered.

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 17, Issue 3
October 2019
Pages 377-398

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