 | Alena V. Ledeneva - 1998 - 260 pages
...is human and warm. Bribery stands for impersonal corruption. Bribery implies a conflict of interests where one is to be 'compensated' for doing something one would not do otherwise, while blat is a form of cooperation and mutual support with a long-term perspective, implying trust rather... | |
 | Shantayanan Devarajan, F. Halsey Rogers - 2002 - 260 pages
...interaction. A key difference is that bribery is illegal, whereas legal codes do not refer to blat (for example, in terms of conflict of interest or...doing something one would not do otherwise, while blat is a form of cooperation and mutual support with a long-term perspective, implying trust rather... | |
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Rather, in local terms, bribery "implies a conflict of interest where one is to be 'compensated' for doing something one would not do otherwise, while blat is a form of cooperation and mutual support with a long-term perspective, implying trust rather... 