2013 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Humanomics, Vol. 30 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-02-2014-003

2013 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Humanomics, Volume 30, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year’s Outstanding Paper Award for Humanomics

"Fighting corruption: an expectation augmented approach"

Mobolaji ‘Hakeem Ishola
Department of Economics and Financial studies, Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of expectation in fighting corruption in a society.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is analytical in nature, drawing evidence from the Quran, Hadith and Seerah. It has a strong theoretical basis on the role of expectation in eliciting desirable response.
Findings – The paper suggests that a continuous disregard to corruption-reducing impact of the revealed ethics would always lead to a suboptimal anti-corruption policy and exacerbate a drifting pressure to locally stable corruption equilibrium.
Research limitations/implications – The paper focuses on the role of expectation at micro level, a macroeconomic perspective can be a good research effort. Also, due to the paucity of data as a result of the nature of the topic being investigated, new research can further investigate this issue empirically.
Practical implications – Potential outcome of this paper is to stem the wave of corruption through revealed ethics or God consciousness which is relatively easier to administer and less costly, since reform effort is internally supported not externally imposed.
Social implications – This paper would positively impact on the society, by stemming the upsurge of corruption through religious ethics. It further allocates a greater role to the society in curbing corruption through the revealed ethics. This paper would positively influence public attitudes towards corruption, hence improve the quality of.
Originality/value – The paper is novel, in that it applies an economic theory to solving a social menace. It further optimally combines both conventional economic theory with revealed religious teachings and argues that both may not conflict if properly understood or properly applied. The paper is a necessary bridge between Western perspective and Islamic Position, more importantly now that the world is looking for a viable alternative to the inadequacies of the conventional Western perspectives.

Keywords: Corruption, Corruption expectation, Ethics, Microeconomic behaviour

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/H-02-2014-003

This article originally appeared in Volume 28 Number 2, 2012, Humanomics

The following articles were selected for this year’s Highly Commended Award

"Measurement model of corporate zakat collection in Malaysia: a test of diffusion of innovation theory"

Muhammad-Bashir Owolabi Yusuf and Alias Mat Derus

This article originally appeared in Volume 29 Number 1, 2012, Humanomics

"Theory appraisal in Islamic economic methodology: purposes and criteria"

Hafas Furqani and Mohamed Aslam Haneef

This article originally appeared in Volume 28 Number 4, 2012, Humanomics

"Introduction to corporate governance from Islamic perspective"

Sulaiman Abdullah Saif Alnasser and Joriah Muhammed

This article originally appeared in Volume 28 Number 3, 2012, Humanomics