Studying factors affecting the occurrence of corruption: a Meta- synthesis

Corruption means the misuse of public and government resources in line with individual goals in an illegal manner. In line to this definition, the main goal of the research is to study the factors affecting the occurrence of corruption, using  a inductive and qualitative meta-synthesis method in the period from 1996 to 2013. Therefore, with non-probability (deliberate) sampling of 96 scientific documents (extracted from Noormags, Magiran and Irandoc) and after screening, 43 cases were selected as the sample size by deliberate-non-probability method and entered the analysis phase with Excell software and They became MAXQDA 2022. The results show that in Iran, moral anomie (weakness of moral values of society, weakness of religious affiliations and weakness of organizational ethics), cultural anomie (inappropriate cultural adaptability; anti-values lifestyle and cultural abnormality); Social anomie (malfunctioning of social capital; social discrimination; malfunctioning of social institutions and prevalence of social abnormality); Anomie of social control (crisis of formal and informal control system); Organizational-institutional anomie (organizational bias; organizational discrimination; weak organizational governance and administrative dysfunction); Educational anomie (weakness of social media; low information literacy and educational dysfunction); Economic anomie (economic instability; economic pressures and discrimination and business climate crisis) and political anomie (weakness of political governance; malfunctioning of political institutions and political deviations) have been effective in the tendency to corruption.