• Project coordinator and PI: Kristina S. Weißmüller (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

• Short title: Effective Anti-Corruption Strategies for Public Organizations

• Short summary: Administrative corruption is an unresolved issue that causes severe societal harm worldwide. Anti-corruption regulation neglects the human factor in the challenge of translating these policies into effective strategies within organizational contexts. This project develops a novel multi-dimensional framework and empirical evidence to explain why some public organizations are more corruptible than others, which anti-corruption strategies work under which conditions, and why. By conducting multi-country mixed-methods research, it provides new insights into how public organizations can govern corruption risks comprehensively. Consequently, anti-corruption strategies can be designed more effectively by integrating insights from public integrity, compliance management, and behavioral public administration research.

• Keywords: Anti-corruption strategies; public integrity; behavioral public administration; organizational corruption risk control; compliance

About the NWO Talent Programme (Veni scheme round 2023): https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/from-algorithmic-criminal-justice-to-depressive-gut-bacteria-174-researchers-receive-veni-grant 

News & media:

• https://vu.nl/en/news/2024/veni-grant-for-public-administration-scientist-kristina-s-weissmuller 

• https://vu.nl/en/news/2024/record-number-of-veni-grants-for-promising-vu-researchers