Abstract
This paper applies concepts from complexity science to describe corruption risk in the context of various types of uncertainty intrinsic to social interaction systems [12]. This is in contrast to typical approaches that focus on individual ethics and agency issues that are observed during human organizing (cf. [23]). More specifically, this article argues that disequilibrium conditions in organizations [15, 16] emerge as opportunity tension [7] creates value potential which perturbs the alignment of attention among the agent population related to their expectations about the benefits of participating in the organizational system.