Table Of ContentThe Changing Face of Corruption
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The Changing Face
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Current Perspectives and Future
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Contributors’ Biographies
TimAndrews
Dr. Tim G. Andrews is an Associate Professor based at Webster University
(Thailand). His current scholarly interests include international brand management,
indigenous culture constructs, and economic inequality for organizations doing
business in Southeast Asia (particularly Thailand and Myanmar). He has authored
numerous international journal articles and books including Building Brands in
Asia: From the Inside-out to be published by Routledge (forthcoming). He is a
coeditoroftheWorkinginAsiabookseries(alsowithRoutledge).
AntonioArgandon˜a
Antonio Argandon˜a received his PhD in economics from the University of
Barcelona.HeisEmeritusProfessorofEconomicsandofBusinessEthicsandholds
the CaixaBank Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility at IESE Business School,
University of Navarra. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Economics and
Finance of Spain, President of the Standing Committee on Professional Ethics of
the Economists’ Association of Catalonia, a member of the Commission on Anti-
Corruption of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris), of the Commission
on Control and Transparency of the FC Barcelona, and a Director of the Home
Renaissance Foundation (London). He has published numerous books, book chap-
ters, and articles in prestigious journals in economics and business ethics. He has
beentheeditorofbooksandjournals,memberofethicscommitteesofbusinessasso-
ciationsandfinancialinstitutions,andhasheldgovernmentpositionsatIESEBusiness
Schoolandatscientificandprofessionalbodies.Emailaddress:[email protected].
ChristopherBajada
Christopher Bajada is an Associate Professor of Economics at the UTS Business
School, University of Technology Sydney. He started his academic career at the
University of New South Wales, from which he holds a PhD. He has taught eco-
nomics inavarietyofundergraduateandpostgraduatecourses, withhismostrecent
teaching experience being in applied microeconomics. He has also served as
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the UTS Business School from 2009 to
2015. In recognition of his teaching, he was awarded the University’s Teaching
Excellence Award and a National Teaching Citation Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Student Learning in Higher Education. His research is primarily in
applied macroeconomics, with a special interest in tax compliance. He has worked
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with the Australian Taxation Office as a member of the Cash Economy Task Force
and his research has attracted national publicity. In support of his research, he has
been successful in several competitive research grants including from the
Australian Research Council. He has also served as a member of Council of the
EconomicSocietyofAustralia(NSWBranch).
RichardBaldwin
Richard Baldwin has over 40 years’ experience in senior roles in the health and
aged care sectors including services management, teaching, research, and consult-
ing. After an initial clinical career, he joined the NSW Department of Health and
held several senior positions. More recently, he spent nearly a decade as a Director
in the health advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers and was a senior lecturer
in and director of health services management at the University of Technology
Sydney. He is an RN, has an MBA from UNSW, and a PhD from UTS. Currently
heisAssociateatUTS, apolicy officeratMentalHealthCarers(NSW),anOfficial
Visitor under the NSW Mental Health Act, the Chief Examiner of the Australasian
College of Health Service Management and undertakes consulting work concerning
healthandagedcare.Emailaddress:[email protected].
Tristan Canare
Tristan Canare is a Program Manager and Economist at the Asian Institute of
Management (AIM) R.S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness (formerly
AIM Policy Center) in Makati City, Philippines. Previously, he also worked insuch
institutions at The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Asia-Pacific
Policy Center. He has authored or coauthored journal articles, book chapters, and
working papers on such topics as voting preference, mining, vote buying, impact
evaluation, conditional cash transfer, competitiveness, local government spending,
and among others. He holds master’s degrees in economics and in development
economicsfromtheUniversityofthePhilippines(Diliman) andabachelor’sdegree
in economics from the University of the Philippines (Los Ban˜os). He is currently
pursuing a PhD in economics at the Ateneo de Manila University. Email address:
[email protected].
PaulCaussat
Paul is a PhD student within University Paris Panthe´on-Sorbonne and ESCP
Europe. His topic revolves around MNC interactions with local actors in India,
from acceptance to opposition, more particularly in the banking sector. He also tea-
ches courses on international strategies of companies and territories as well as on
the Indian economy. He received his education in economy and obtained his mas-
ter’s degree in International Affairs (concentration: South Asia) from Sciences Po
Paris. He also worked within the Economic Service at the Embassy of France to
India,postedinMumbai.HeisalsoaboardmemberofAsiaCentre,aleadingthink
tank on Asia’s political, economic, and strategic issues based in Paris. Email
address: [email protected].
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MariedelaRama
Dr. Marie dela Rama is an academic in the Management Discipline Group at UTS
Business School, Sydney, Australia and is a past recipient of the Australian
Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship. She has research interests in aged
care, business ethics, business groups, corporate governance, corruption, economic
sociology, and family businesses. She has published in a variety of areas in both
academic and professional spheres including The Age, Asia-Pacific Business
Review, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Australasian Journal in
Ageing, The Economist, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Business
Ethics, Korea Observer, Pensions: An International Review, Sydney Morning
Herald, Third Sector Review, and others. She was cited by the Australian
Government’s Senate Economics Committee inquiry into private equity and aged
care (2007). Her previous books include the 4-volume Fundamentals of Corporate
Governance (SAGE: London, 2008) and 3-volume Corporate Governance and
Globalisation (SAGE: London, 2007). This is her first book with Elsevier. Email
address: [email protected].
JanetDine
Janet Dine is a Professor of International Economic Development Law at Queen
Mary University of London and honorary Professor at Dundee University. She pub-
lished the monograph: The Governance of Corporate Groups, Cambridge
University Press 2000. In 2002, she took an MA in Theology and Society at the
University of Essex further broadening her scholarship and became fascinated with
the imbalance between individuals, states, and powerful companies. In 2005, she
published another monograph with Cambridge University Press named “Company,
International Trade and Human Rights,” CUP, 2005. Human Rights and interna-
tional trade law were the focus of her edited book “Human Rights and Capitalism,
Edward Elgar 2006” with Andrew Fagan. She details the lack of accountability for
Human Rights violations by MNEs and analyses the tensions between property
rightsandHumanRights.Poverty,internationaltrade,andpowerissuesrunthrough
her work so she submitted a proposal to AHRC with Professor Granville in the
same area which received a funding of d300,000; the projects was on “The
Fairtrade Movement: legal support and social implications.” One outcome of the
AHRC project was publishing a book entitled: “The Processes practices of
Fairtrade: Thrust, Ethics and Governance (edited)” with Brigitte Glanville. In
2005, she was appointed as the Director of the Centre of Commercial Law Studies
at Queen Mary University of London. During her term she planned the new Queen
Mary LLM programme, found the Lincoln’s Inn Fields location for the CCLS and
improved the staff gender balance and diversity. In 2003, she was appointed as a
commercial law expert in a project funded by the World Bank, the EU and the
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH which was
aiming at assisting the Balkan states to join the EU. She drafted laws and advised
governments in Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania to align their law with
the EU acquis communautaire. With Michael Blecher she drafted “Albanian Law
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9901 on Entrepreneurs and Companies” of April 14, 2008, the Albanian work is
ongoing.Emailaddress:[email protected].
Je´roˆmeDoyon
Je´roˆme Doyon is a PhD candidate in political science at SciencesPo/CERI (Paris)
and Columbia University (New York). His area of research is mainly Chinese
domestic politics; including elite politics, the Party system, and issues related to
religions and minorities. His dissertation focuses more specifically on the evolution
of the Communist Youth League and on the recruitment of Party officials. He is
also an Associate Fellow at ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations) and
editor of China Analysis. He is the author of Ne´gocier la place de l’islam chinois:
Les associations islamiques a` Nankin sous l’e`re des re´formes [Arranging a space
for Chinese Islam: Islamic associations in Nanjing during the reform era],
(L’Harmattan:Paris,2014).Emailaddress:[email protected].
JaneEllis
Jane Ellis is the head of the Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) at the
International Bar Association (IBA) in London. The IBA is the world’s leading
organization of international legal practitioners, bar associations, and law societies.
The LPRU explores issues relevant to the legal profession in a commercial context.
Its projects include anticorruption and antimoney laundering, business, and human
rights, whistleblower protection, economic sanctions, social media, and judicial
integrity.Priortojoiningthe IBA, Jane was a director, legaladviser,andconsultant
in Australia. As a director, Jane provided expert oversight and input to boards on
governance, nominations, risk, and ethics. As a legal adviser and consultant, Jane
worked with companies that sought to strengthen their corporate cultures and ethics
and to effect change across their organization. Jane’s experience has been informed
by, and developed through a career as a competition lawyer in one of Australia’s
national firms, a long-term commitment to and involvement in anticorruption and
water civil society organizations—specifically as a board member of the Australian
chapter of Transparency International (2001(cid:1)05; 2007(cid:1)15) and WaterAid
Australia (2009(cid:1)15)—and studies in anthropology and archaeology. Jane has pre-
sented widely—from company and/or board specific seminars to international con-
ferences hosted by the United Nations—on anticorruption, governance, business
ethics, and competition. She received her undergraduate degree in law from the
UniversityofMelbourne(LLB (Hons)); inArts(archaeology &anthropology) from
the Australian National University (ANU), and her Master of Public Policy also
fromtheANU.Emailaddress:[email protected].
RobertGregory
Robert Gregory PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Politics in the School of
Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published
widely in the fields of public administration and management and public policy,
with particular attention to issues of accountability and responsibility, and corrup-
tion. He was the winner of the 1996 annual Sam Richardson Award for the most
Contributors’Biographies xvii
influential article published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
Emailaddress:[email protected].
StephenHorne
Stephen Horne is a public sector specialist who developed a career in internal audit
within the NSW Government, moving on to management and strategy reviews. He
joined the NSW Audit Office in 1991 as a foundation member of its new perfor-
mance audit function, and became NSW Assistant Auditor-General in 2004. In July
2006 Stephen was appointed as chief executive of IAB Services, a NSW
Government Trading Enterprise that successfully competed against the private sec-
tor as an outsourced provider of a wide range of improvement services including
internal audit, management consulting, and misconduct investigations to State,
LocalandCommonwealthGovernmentbodiesinNSW.
In 2015, he established a global consultancy in the fields of integrity services,
risk, governance, internal audit, and performance audit. He has contributed widely
to public sector improvement, with a particularly strong focus in the fields of fraud
control, corruption prevention, e-government, corporate governance, risk manage-
ment, internal audit, and performance reporting. He is the author of widely distrib-
uted and highly regarded better-practice publications on fraud control, probity in
procurement, and public sector governance. He is also a leading figure in the ongo-
ing evolution of performance audit methodologies and annual reporting. He has a
Bachelor of Business Studies (Public Sector), and postgraduate studies in manage-
ment communications and fraud control. He is a fellow and Professional Member
of the Institute of Internal Auditors (PFIIA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA),
Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP), Certified in Risk
Management Assurance (CRMA), a qualified Company Director (GAICD), and
CompanySecretary(FGIA).
KhinThiHtun
Dr. Khin Thi Htun is currently a Director of Builder’s International Trading Ltd
based in Bangkok. A Burmese national with a background in medicine, she is also
amemberoftheMyanmarWomenEntrepreneursAssociation (MWEA) inYangon.
Her research interests focus on the role of women in a changing Burma, as well as
the experiences of base-of-the-pyramid employees in Burmese organizations work-
ingabroad.
RoopinderOberoi
Dr. Roopinder Oberoi is a teaching faculty member at the Department of Political
Science, DelhiUniversityfor 14 years. Shereceived her MA, MPhil,andPhDfrom
the University of Delhi. She specializes in the area of political science, public
administration, public policy, and corporate social responsibility and sustainable
development. In 2009 she was awarded a Post-Doctorate Research Fellowship by
the University Grant Commission. She also received an Emerald Outstanding
Contribution Award in 2016. She has published a book on Corporate Social
Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies, Lexington
xviii Contributors’Biographies
Publisher, United States (2015). Her forthcoming book is on Reappraising
Globalization to be published by Lexington, United States. She has contributed
nearly 32 papers in various peer reviewed national and international journals and
presented 45 papers at national and international conference in the field of public
administration, new governance paradigm, corporate governance, and corporate
social responsibility. She is on the advisory board of research committee 35, of the
InternationalPolitical ScienceAssociation.
IngyuOh
Ingyu Oh is a Professor of Korean Studies and Sociology at the Research Institute
of Korean Studies, Korea University. Previously, he taught at Bristol Business
School, UC Berkeley, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, and the University of
Waikato. His main areas of research and publications are Economic Sociology
(Mafia States and Organizations), Cultural Studies (Global Pop Culture), Ethnicity
and Migration (Korean Diaspora), and International Business Management
(StrategicAlliancesandAsianVarietiesofManagement).
NgoThaiPhuong
Ngo Thai Phuong earned a doctoral degree from the Business School of Flinders
University in South Australia. She gained a master’s degree at Vietnam’s National
Economics University in 2004 and has worked for the Vietnamese Government
ever since. Previously, she worked in the banking industry and brings many years
of professional work experience. Her research interests are in the areas of business
ethics,entrepreneurshipandstrategicdecision-making,cross-culturalissues inman-
agement, and human resource management. She is a contributor to several manage-
ment books. Her work has been published in several journals, including the Asian
Journal of Business Ethics, the International Journal of Management and Business,
and the Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information
[email protected].
AndrewProctor
Andrew Proctor has had a long career in private sector development, specializing,
for the past 35 years, in foreign investment policy and promotion. For the 10-year
period to mid-2003, he was the regional manager for Asia and the Pacific for the
Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS)—an advisory unit within the World
Bank Group (now part of the Bank’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice).
For most of this time, he was based in Sydney as the manager of the FIAS Asia
Pacific Regional Office, working closely with the IFC and World Bank Offices in
the region and the Australian and New Zealand development assistance agencies,
which contributedtothefundingoftheOffice.PriortojoiningFIAS,Andrewspent
12 years as a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), based successively
inLondon,Nairobi,theEasternCaribbean,Canberra,andWashington.Whileliving
in the Caribbean, he worked on a large, USAID-funded regional private sector
development project and for much of the rest of this period was involved with pro-
jects funded by a range of development assistance agencies, often dealing with the
