The Vicissitudes of Corruption
Degeneration, transgression, jouissance


In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations – the vicissitudes – of corruption. Advancing the claim that corruption is tightly related to modernity and exploring possible ancient, postmodern and psychoanalytic critiques of the modern understanding of corruption, the book throws light on different ways in which corruption can be thought.

These different understandings of corruption are used to analyse primarily bribery in Swedish public sector procurement. In interviews, project managers responsible for public procurement give their account not only of bribes and gifts, but also about partiality and objectivity in supplier evaluations. Using these interviews and theoretical perspectives, the book problematises corruption and investigates how it is addressed and externalised with clear rules, virtues and rituals separating the public role from the private.

Thomas Taro Lennerfors is a researcher at the department of Industrial Management at the Royal Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Engineering and Management. He teaches business ethics, philosophy of technology, industrial management and strategic operations management.

Facts
Title: The Vicissitudes of Corruption
Degeneration, transgression, jouissance
Language: English
Author: Thomas Taro Lennerfors
Graphic design: Gabor Palotai Design
No. of pages: 446
Format: 120x200 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 9789171788399

Fields of Flow series
This series presents some of the results of the research project Fields of Flow (Art & Business), which is financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The goal of the project is to promote meeting places and discussions between actors – scholars as well as professionals – in the aesthetic, economic and technical fields. The program rests on a research collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology (Prof. Claes Gustafsson), the Stockholm School of Economics (Prof. Sven-Erik Sjöstrand) and Stockholm University (Prof. Pierre Guillet de Monthoux).


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