Abstract

Anthropologists have highlighted two key points of particular relevance to current debates about corruption. First, that the meaning of corruption varies cross-culturally; second, that discourses about corruption provide a useful lens for analysing hidden structures and social norms.

Building on these insights, my paper explores the idea of corruption in the context of the university. If corruption has long been an object of academic interest, it is now a problem for academia itself 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ or so the rise in university anti-corruption initiatives and fraud-prevention hotlines would suggest. But have universities really become more corrupt?

Moving beyond Roscigno에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s (2015) critique of 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜university bureaucracy as organised crime에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™, I use examples from Australiasian universities to explore how risk management, auditing and anti-corruption are being used to open up the university to external financial interests.

More specifically, I analyse the predatory practices of the Big Four international accountancy firms and their growing involvement in the anti-fraud industry. I argue that these not only highlight the 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜performativity에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ of corruption narratives but also reveal how audit firms collude in the risk and corruption that they claim to ameliorate.