2023-12-202023-12-202023Boikos, S., Pinar, M. y Stengos, T. (2023). Bribery, on‑the‑job training, and firm performance. Small Business Economics, 60 (1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-022-00633-6.1573-09130921-898Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/152717The previous literature has extensively examined the effect of firm-level bribery on firm performance but not through on-the-job training. This paper investigates the impact of paying bribes on the firm’s investment decisions in on-the-job training and offers mediating implications of corruption on firm performance. We empirically examine the relationship between bribery and on-the-job training using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys consisting of a sample of 94 developing countries with 20,601 firms. The findings show that bribery and on-the-job training intensity affects real annual sales growth rates negatively and positively, respectively. Furthermore, firms exposed to more bribery reduce their on-the-job training intensity. The results are robust to the different classifications of the firm’s size, different subsamples, and controls for the endogeneity of the on-the-job training and bribery.application/pdf22 p.engAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/CorruptionBriberyFirm performanceOn-the-job traininginfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.1007/s11187-022-00633-6