The study essentially finds that to reverse the trend of fragility in an economic system (a national economic system) in the context of developing economies, the issues of financial accountability, ethical questions and great organizational citizenship behaviour must in their combinatory format, be elevated to the status of a national imperative. | Financial accountability ethical issues and organizational citizenship behavior in fragile economic systems The case of the Nigerian economy Accounting4 2018 161 170 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac Financial accountability ethical issues and organizational citizenship behavior in fragile economic systems The case of the Nigerian economy Remi Chukwudi Okekea and Linda Oluchi Nwankpab Department of Public Administration and Local Government University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria a bDepartmentof Accountancy Abia State Polytechnic Aba Abia State Nigeria CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The general objective of this study is to examine the relationship among financial Received November 1 2017 accountability ethical issues and organizational citizenship behaviour in a national economic Received in revised format system. The null hypothesis of the study examined the inverted trajectories of the variables. November 11 2017 The work is situated within the context of Nigeria s national economy which typifies a fragile Accepted January7 2018 Available online economic system. We have argued in the work that the fragility of the Nigerian national January82018 economic system which is representative of similar economies among developing nations is Keywords a function of its input-output processes. The study essentially finds that to reverse the trend of Financial accountability fragility in an economic system a national economic system in the context of developing Ethical issues economies the issues of financial accountability ethical questions and great organizational Organizational citizenship citizenship behaviour must in their combinatory format be elevated to the status of a national behavior imperative. We found in the work that ethical regeneration is antecedent to institutional Fragile economic systems reform in the schemata of mechanisms for reversing the tendency of fragility in troubled economic .
