TITLE:
Gender Does Not Matter with the Corruption Practices in Namibian Enterprises Actually
AUTHORS:
Adalbertus Kamanzi, Anatolia Shiimi
KEYWORDS:
Gender, Corruption, Enterprise, Bribe
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
21,
2022
ABSTRACT: The paper examines if gender
matters in the corruption practices in Namibian enterprises. The article uses
the Namibia Enterprise Survey Database (NESD) 2014/2015
to test a null hypothesis that there is no association between gender and corruption practices in Namibian enterprises.
The key findings of this study are that few enterprises have experienced
being requested to give bribes and that whether the enterprise is managed by
women or by men, corruption as an obstacle, giving a bribe for electricity,
water connection, and a license for operation impact on both women and men
managed enterprises equally. Hence, there is no gender corruption inequality
but gender corruption equality in the corruption practices in the Namibian
enterprises. Nonetheless, there is a need for further research in Namibia to
account for the factors that have led to less graft experience and the gender
corruption equality in Namibian enterprises.