There are high trust and low trust countries where the business environments support behavior and ideologies that encourage or discourage this kind of commercial corruption. Some industries are also specifically ones that attract commercial corruption.

Good article here:

*WHY JUST ABOUT EVERY COUNTRY SEEMS TO HAVE A FAVORITE SCAM*

The "Canadian Paradox" and the economic geography of fraud, as explained by an economist and author.

https://crimereads.com/why-just-about-every-country-seems-to...