New development: Cultural impacts on unethical practices in public management—Are individualism and femininity a golden combination?

This article explores the impacts of country-specific cultural dimensions on unethical practices in public management. The focus is on four unethical practices: corruption, manipulation of accounting information, bullying behaviour by managers towards their subordinates, and the acceptance of gifts by public servants. Each of these practices is examined in relation to Hofstede's country-cultural dimensions. The study suggests that individualism and femininity may reduce the likelihood of corruption and the manipulation of accounting information, offering a theoretical proposition for future empirical research.