Volume 4, 2009
A Survey of International Corporate Responsibility
Grant Walton
Pages 179-189
Rifling Through Corruption’s Baggage
Understanding Corruption Through Discourse Analysis
This paper examines several primarily academic discourses on corruption to demarcate the assumptions embedded within each one. It begins by discussing different definitions of corruption, which leads to an identification of five prominent discourses on the subject that are examined in some detail. The paper concludes by considering some implications of this analysis.