Collective Identity and Administrative & Financial Corruption

Since a long time ago, the issue of corruption has been looked at from the perspective of culture and society. Hence, cultural and social strategies have been accompanying managerial, organizational, supervisory, technological (like electronic governance) and political ones. Among this, some of the fundamental concepts related to culture have been forgotten. One of these forgotten concepts is “identity”. In other words, the impact of collective identity as an important and influential factor on alleviating administrative and financial corruption has been ignored. This paper pays attention to this matter and delves into its different dimensions. Therefore the main question is: how much collective identity affects the desire to engage in corruption as well as managing and countering administrative and financial corruption?