Understanding corruption and firm responses in cross-national firm-level surveys

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1481-1504

  Jensen, Nathan M ^a   Li, Quan ^b   Rahman, Aminur ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

corruption; false response; firm level surveys; nonresponse; political freedom

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649596750     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.8     Document Type: Review

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