I modelli di gestione organizzazione e controllo per la prevenzione della corruzione nelle imprese. Un'analisi empirica nel contesto italiano

The fight against corruption (or bribery) is a central issue both at a national and international level. Particularly, at International level, the OECD has started up for years an effective action against bribery in the international economic transactions, considering it as an element that could distort competition and lower civil and political standards in a Country. At a national level, the European Commission wrote and published the first report on fight against corruption in February 2014. This report described nature and level of corruption in every European Member State and in this document is written that “(...) In Italy the most worrying aspects are both the close ties between political subjects, criminal organizations and firms and the low integrity level of key personnel management such as shown by the high number of corruption investigations”. Relating to this important matter, the aim of the paper is to identify specific actions and procedures carried out by companies to prevent corruption behaviors. We analyze all the companies that are listed on Milan Stock Exchange (FTSE Italia All Share) and we investigate whether these firms have put into practice some procedures against corruption, how long these procedures were active and whether it was possible to identify some best practices.