Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 12, 2001

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting

Toward Global Eradication of Corruption

This paper examines the emerging and evolving multilateral campaign to reduce corruption worldwide. That campaign centers on multilateral conventions recently adopted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union (EU) — together with the policies and actions of other multilateral bodies, govemmental and non-govemmental, such as the United Nations, the Worid Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for African Unity (OAU), the Council of Europe, the Intemational Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and very importantly Transparency Intemational (Tl). The authors' concem is with the logics of comiption and reform, the developmental history of the global anti-corruption campaign, issues involved in mobilization of multilateral effort to comiption suppression, and whether there are useful lessons in previous and/or ongoing mobilization efforts in related policy arenas.