Stamouli, Eirini
Gasparinatou, Margarita
Kouroutzas, Christos
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2377)
Democritus University of Thrace
Article History
Received: 5 April 2022
Revised: 5 December 2022
Accepted: 17 December 2022
First Online: 4 January 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The Postdoctoral Research entitled “Corruption and state-corporate crime: the example of the health sector” was carried out at the Department of Social Policy of the Democritus University of Thrace and was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I -ΕΛ.ΙΔ.Ε.Κ.).
: <b>Research involving human participants – ethics approval</b>:
: The study was performed in line with the principles of the ethical – legal framework for the protection of personal data (including EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Regulation (EU) 2016/679). For the protection of all the participants and data through the empirical research, the technique of anonymity has been utilized at all stages. Approval was granted by the Committee of Research Ethics of Democritus University of Thrace (47121/326/19-04-2019).
: This research has involved human subjects who have freely given their informed consent to participate, by signing an information form provided by the researchers before the start of the interviews. The participants were informed about the object of the research and the identity of the researchers in order to fully consent to the semi-structured interviews. The participants in the research also agreed to the publication of the results by signing the form. The publication has to happen in a secure way, assuring complete anonymity and protection of personal data.