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To Pay or Not to Pay? Dynamic Transparency and the Fight Against the Mafia’s Extortionists

verfasst von: Antonino Vaccaro

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2012

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This article presents the results of the longitudinal study of Addiopizzo, a successful anti-bribery organization founded in Sicily in 2004. It analyzes how this organization has used information disclosure as a strategy to fight adverse environmental conditions and the immoral activities of the Sicilian Mafia. This article extends the business ethics and corporate social responsibility literature by showing how multi-level strategic information disclosure processes can help gain organizational legitimacy in adverse social environments and successfully fight against social resistance to change, low levels of moral imagination and attacks from criminal organizations. This article provides an additional contribution to the literature by linking the three research streams on corporate transparency, the fight against corruption, and organizational legitimacy. The results of this research also contribute to the special issue of the EBEN AC 2010, “Which values for which organizations”, since it provides a unique example of an organization capable of spreading the values of social justice and honesty in a difficult social environment plagued by Mafia.

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“Un popolo che paga il pizzo è un popolo senza dignità”. The Sicilian term “Pizzo” refers to the money paid by a person or an institution to obtain protection from the Mafia. This is generally paid as a consequence of an extortive pressure by a Mafia family.

“Contro il Pizzo Cambia I Consumi”.

One of the first acts by the Mafia against an entrepreneur/small firm that refuses to pay a bribe is to fill the shop’s bolts and locks with glue during the night. The next morning, the shop manager has to call for a carpenter or the police to get access to the premises, which results in loss of business.

This was a serious problem. The police discovered that Mafia bosses were suggesting that entrepreneurs adopt this strategy to benefit from Mafia protection and the advantages of the anti-racket certification.

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Titel: To Pay or Not to Pay? Dynamic Transparency and the Fight Against the Mafia’s Extortionists
verfasst von: Antonino Vaccaro
Publikationsdatum: 01.03.2012
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2012
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-1050-3

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