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Dear Participant,

Thank you for participating in the World Economic Forum’s project "Building Foundations Against Corruption" survey.

Launched at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, January 2014, the project includes Forum partner companies involved in the engineering, construction and real estate industries, and is conducted in collaboration with the Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI).

This survey tool is designed to capture views on the most important corruption risks and those priority areas where the community might work together to improve anti-corruption and transparency efforts, together with other stakeholders, including governments and civil society.

This survey is aimed at the Chief Compliance Officer or equivalent expert functions, and will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. We suggest that it be completed in one session.

The World Economic Forum is the sole owner of the survey data and it will not be used other than in aggregated, anonymized form, without the express consent of the respondent.

For any questions, please contact Michael Max Buehler at [email protected]. Please note the survey will close on 15 August at 12:00 PM EDT or 6:00 PM CEDT time.

Thank you for your valuable support and we look forward to working with you.

World Economic Forum Infrastructure and PACI Teams
 
 
 
My company's primary affiliation is part of this industry/sector:
 
Real Estate
 
Construction
 
Engineering
 
Services
 
Consulting
 
Other
 
 
 
 
What is your function in the company?

 
Chief Compliance Office (or similar)
 
Internal Audit (or similar)
 
Legal Department
 
Executive Management
 
Purchasing
 
Sales
 
Other
 
 
 
 
Section I. Perceptions on corruption and its effects
 
 
In this section, we are assessing your views on how corruption affects your industry sector.

For the purpose of this survey, corruption is defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It can take make many forms, and in the infrastructure industry it is often linked to bribery, facilitation payments, kickbacks, promotional expenses, collusion, illegal information brokering, etc.
 
 
Over the next 5 years, do you anticipate levels of corruption will increase or decrease for your industry sector?
 
Substantially lower corruption risk than today
 
Lower corruption risk than today
 
About the same level of corruption risk
 
Higher corruption risk than today
 
Substantially higher corruption risk than today
 
Unclear
 
 
From your point of view, please rate your level of agreement with the following statements.
Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree
Corruption imposes additional costs of business and negatively impacts profits
-
Corruption is a significant reputational risk for my company
-
Corruption decreases the competitiveness of the industry
-
Corruption prevents companies from expanding and reaching new markets
-
Corruption negatively affects product and/or service quality
-
Corruption negatively affects scheduling and delivery
-
Corruption has an adverse effect on prices of products and/or services
-
Prosecution and enforcement against corruption in the industry is increasing
-
The potential for prosecution and enforcement is a deterrent against corrupt conduct
-
 
 
 
Section II. Risk Assessment
 
 
From the list below, please select the 5 most important corruption risks affecting your industry sector.

 
Inappropriate sharing of information in the bidding process
 
Bribery of government officials or employment of government officials or their relatives
 
Cash bribes or kickbacks to third parties
 
Excessive gifts and lavish entertainment
 
Inappropriate use of agents (e.g. sharing their fee with personnel at the client side)
 
Bribery of government officials for permitting, licensing, land acquisition and zoning
 
Unfair design specifications and pre-selection of a sole bidder
 
Selecting parties which are not at arm's length in procurement processes
 
Overbilling schemes whereby an enterprise receives higher than normal invoice prices
 
Bid-rigging and price-fixing, collusion
 
Facilitating unfair inspection of construction site or processes
 
Facilitation payments to accelerate customs clearance or transport of goods
 
Acts of corruption linked to violations of human rights, health and safety

 
 
Other
   
 
 
For each of the 5 key selected risks, please indicate your perception on the impact and likelihood of these risks occurring in projects underway or in which you will engage in the next 24 months.

Some of the factors to consider when estimating the impact of past incidents, potential amounts of fines or penalties, impact on operations such as interruption in the enterprise’s ability to transport goods or obtain permits or other required approvals, impact on retention of customers and future revenues, etc.

Some of the factors to consider when estimating the likelihood include the nature of the transaction, incidents in the past, the local corruption culture and environment, the number of individual transactions and the number of individuals involved.
 
 
 
Section III. General Information
 
 
Which regions are most prone to corruption risks? Please select up to three answers.
 
North America
 
South America
 
Europe
 
Middle East
 
Africa
 
East Asia
 
South East Asia and Pacific
 
CIS

 
 
 
Has your company ever quantified the cost of corruption in terms of additional cost of doing business (e.g. reputational damage, loss of sales, penalties, legal fees, etc.)?
 
Yes
 
Yes, but not in terms of “additional cost of doing business”
 
No, but we plan to do so
 
No
 
 
Based on the priority risks you identified earlier, please rate the following potential mitigation measures
Very ineffective Not effective Neutral Effective Very effective
Develop with governments clear rules of conduct around procurement processes for infrastructure and real estate
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Foster on-going and high level business-government dialogue to understand the key corruption risks
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Implement sector-specific initiatives to create business-driven codes of conduct
-
Create new risk-based compliance tools and services. Q2 Conduct more research to quantify corruption risks. Q3 Develop voluntary disclosure mechanisms to encourage industry self-reporting
-
 
 
Other
   
 
 
 
Is your company already engaged in sector-specific anti-corruption initiatives?

 
Yes
 
No
 
Not currently, but the company has been engaged in the past
 
 
 
Would your company be interested in working with other leading companies to address industry corruption risks?

 
Yes
 
No
 
Not sure
 
 
 
Is your company currently engaged with the World Economic Forum?

 
Yes, our company is a Member of the World Economic Forum
 
Yes, our company is a Member of the Forum and PACI
 
No, but we would consider a collaboration on anti-corruption with the World Economic Forum
 
No, and we are not intending to engage
 
 
 
How can the World Economic Forum be most effective in addressing issues associated with corruption?

 
Providing functional tools for analyzing corruption
 
Developing sector specific agendas
 
Publish comprehensive research on corruption and risks
 
Develop targeted collaborations between business and government
 
Other
 
 
 
 
General data
 
 
 
In which geographical areas are your operations primarily located?

 
North America
 
South America
 
Europe
 
Middle East
 
Africa
 
Central Asia
 
South East Asia and Pacific
 
CIS
 
 
 
Would you like to share any additional thoughts on corruption risks and how the industry might address them?
   
 
 
For each of the 5 key selected risks, please indicate your perception on the impact and likelihood of these risks occurring in projects underway or in which you will engage in the next 24 months.

Some of the factors to consider when estimating the impact of past incidents, potential amounts of fines or penalties, impact on operations such as interruption in the enterprise’s ability to transport goods or obtain permits or other required approvals, impact on retention of customers and future revenues, etc.

Some of the factors to consider when estimating the likelihood include the nature of the transaction, incidents in the past, the local corruption culture and environment, the number of individual transactions and the number of individuals involved.
Cash bribes or kickbacks to third parties for obtaining business
-
Excessive gifts and lavish entertainment
-
Inappropriate use of agents: agents secure contracts by sharing their fee with personnel at the client side
-
Bribery of government officials for permitting, licensing, land acquisition and zoning
-
Unfair design specifications for pre-selecting a company which is the only able to deliver according to specification
-
Selecting parties which are not at arm's lenght in procurement processes
-
Overbilling schemes whereby an enterprise receives higher than normal invoice prices
-
Bid-rigging and price-fixing, collusion
-
Facilitating unfair inspection of construction site or processes
-
Payments to accelerate customs clearance or transport of goods
-
Acts of corruption linked to violations of human rights, health and safety
-
 
 
 
Section III. General Information
 
 
Which regions are most prone to corruption risks? Please select up to three answers.

 
 
 
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