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    Corporate corruption management : a proposal for an accountability framework
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2025) Vázquez Oteo, Orencio; García-Torea, Nicolás; de la Cuesta-González, Marta
    This study develops an anti-corruption accountability framework covering relevant thematic aspects and in-dicators that stakeholders require to assess firms commitment to fighting corrupt practices. Relying on dialo-gic accountability premises, the study performs a research engagement exercise with Spanish stakeholdersorganized in two phases to gather and integrate their multiple views. First, semi-structured interviewswere held with actors representing relevant constituencies to identify key thematic aspects to assess firmsanti-corruption. Second, a focus group was organized with representatives of information users to define aset of suitable indicators to evaluate those aspects. The resulting anti-corruption accountability frameworkconsists of 68 indicators that evaluate 27 key thematic aspects grouped into four overarching blocks. Byhelping make corporations accountable for managing corruption, the study offers insights to policy-makersand managers, particularly in the EU, where firms are mandated to report on anti-corruption. From a methodological perspective, the study shows the instrumentality of dialogic accountability to design spaceswhere firms and stakeholders can collaboratively interact and discuss the information the former shouldprovide to allow the latter to assess corporate commitment on social and environmental topics, such asanti-corruption.