RT Article
T1 Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 26
IS 3
SP 258
OP 292
A1 Stamouli, Eirini
A2 Gasparinatou, Margarita
A2 Kouroutzas, Christos
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1858640393
AB The study analyses the relations and processes underpinning grand corruption in the health sector in Greece. Viewed from a systemic-structural perspective, corruption is examined as a phenomenon emerging from the interactions and interconnections between the organized structures of venture capital and the state apparatus. Applying an integrated theoretical model of state-corporate crime and drawing on extensive empirical qualitative research, this paper traces the processes of normalization and institutionalization of corruption within the context of social networks and organizations. It is argued that corruption is not a deviant response to a normal system but a normal response to a system fostering illicit practice in accordance with capitalist ethos, profiteering, and the distribution of economic resources. In this wide political economy context, existing power relations and structures within the health sector are being reproduced.
K1 Policy capture
K1 Symbiotic relationships
K1 Corrupt networks
K1 Organizational subculture
K1 Institutionalization
K1 Normalization
K1 Health sector
K1 State-corporate crime
K1 Corruption
DO 10.1007/s12117-022-09479-6