Economic Crime and China’s High-Speed Railway: a Case Study of the Wenzhou Crash
| العنوان: | Economic Crime and China’s High-Speed Railway: a Case Study of the Wenzhou Crash |
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| المؤلفون: | Henry N. Pontell, Adam Kavon Ghazi-Tehrani, Theresa Chang |
| المصدر: | Asian Journal of Criminology. 12:1-22 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Economic expansion, Corruption, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, Corporate crime, Poison control, Advertising, Crash, White-collar crime, Transparency (behavior), 0506 political science, 0502 economics and business, 050602 political science & public administration, Economics, 050207 economics, Economic system, Law, Guanxi, media_common |
| الوصف: | China’s current structural dynamic of rewarding officials for generating vigorous and unprecedented growth is a double-edged sword: such a strategy assures economic expansion, more jobs, and growing infrastructure, but without adequate controls it can also encourage corruption, especially within a social environment that utilizes guanxi, a widely accepted form of institutionalized bribery, that would be illegal in developed countries. The current paper presents a case study of the development of China’s high-speed railway and the Wenzhou train crash and relates it to the criminological literature on white-collar and corporate crime. It seeks to reveal how corruption played a major role in the disaster and is organized as follows. First, it reviews the literature on guanxi and deconstructs the railway crash in Wenzhou. Second, it provides a criminological analysis of three primary factors that caused the crash, including a lack of transparency, a system of weak oversight and self-management, and social acceptance of guanxi, as well as how these elements create widespread institutional corruption. Third, it examines the unique characteristics of China that encourage institutional corruption. Finally, it offers directions for future research on effective reform and compliance. |
| تدمد: | 1871-014X 1871-0131 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::370c8d2b0b48cfdf6918057b79e3251f https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-016-9242-5 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........370c8d2b0b48cfdf6918057b79e3251f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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