A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Organizational Corruption Control

To enable a better understanding of the similarities, distinctions, frictions, and complementarities among corruption control types and to lay the groundwork for future study of their effectiveness in combination, I set forth a theoretical basis for considering a corruption control type in the context of other corruption control types. I draw from both the organizational control literature and the corruption control literature to conceptually derive an interrelated set of corruption control types, based on their important underlying dimensions and functions. Organizational corruption, which I define here as the pursuit of individual interests by one or more organizational actors through the inten-tional misdirection of organizational resources or perversion of organizational routines, is com-monly understood to be highly undesirable for any parties holding a stake in the organization’s performance. Even when the actors ostensibly