How can smaller businesses tackle bribery and corruption?
Coordinator: Peter Wilkinson (Transparency International UK)Contact: p.wilkinson@pwa-cr.com Date: Friday 11:30 to 14:00 Initiatives for countering corruption in the private sector are mainly focused on larger firms but medium and small enterprises (SMEs) represent the majority of the world business organisations, especially in the developing world. SMEs’ encounter with corruption issues will usually be either through a) experience of corrupt demands or b) qualification requirements placed on them in the supply chain by customers – larger companies or public bodies – to show that they have in place codes of conduct and implementation of associated procedures. The workshop will, as an open discussion group, explore the current environment for countering corruption in SMEs and explore practical ways in which SMEs can be encouraged to improve integrity practices and counter corruption. The workshop will be asked to look at issues such as defining the scope of what can be practical, what ad
