Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior

Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788111885

Ever since Sutherland coined the term ‘white-collar crime’, researchers have struggled to understand and explain why some individuals abuse their privileged positions of trust and commit financial crime. This book makes a novel contribution to the development of convenience theory as a framework to understand and explain ‘white-collar crime’.

Case Studies of Executive Deviance

Case Studies of Executive Deviance
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800371705

This insightful book illustrates thirteen case studies demonstrating the convenience theory of white-collar crime. Offering an integrated deductive perspective through a convenience lens, Petter Gottschalk provides crucial insights into the motives, opportunities and behaviors behind executive deviance.

Convenience Triangle in White-Collar Crime

Convenience Triangle in White-Collar Crime
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 178990093X

The ‘convenience triangle’ is the dynamic relationship between motive, opportunity, and willingness to commit a crime, which culminates in the illegal acts which constitute white-collar crime. This book aims to discuss the role of the ‘convenience triangle’ in white-collar crime, how it affects the perpetration of these crimes, the impact of this on detection and prevention and the effects of the punitive measures taken against white-collar criminals.

Deviant Behavior

Deviant Behavior
Author: Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1974
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Seventeen short stories with Western themes. The title story is on a dumb father and a bright son, Dutch Elm is the search for a boy lost in a cornfield, and in Hoot, a lonely farmer is so used to his loneliness that he leaves when his brother moves in. By the author of The Tall Uncut.

Convenience Dynamics and White-Collar Crime

Convenience Dynamics and White-Collar Crime
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000178579

This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime. It argues that as personal motives change over time, so too do organizational opportunities, and willingness for deviant behavior. The work contends that the extent of white-collar crime is dependent on the extent of crime convenience perceived and preferred by potential offenders. It discusses how potential white-collar offenders expand organizational opportunities for financial crime over time. The dynamics are illustrated here by system dynamics models to capture cause and effect relationships. The book also presents a new structural model illustrating the elements of convenience theory along with a new dynamic model illustrating the evolution of white-collar crime. The practical aspects are illustrated with a number of case studies. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and professionals working in the areas of Criminal Justice, Criminology, Criminal Law and Business Studies.

Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations

Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations
Author: Sharma, Naman
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522599983

Management leaders must constantly be prepared to correct the deviant behaviors of their employees and redirect the negative energy for the betterment of all. Ignoring this type of destructive behavior not only spoils the overall work environment for employees, but also risks the loss of quality, talented personnel. Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations is an essential reference source containing innovative research on best practices for adopting and implementing employee deviance remedial strategies. While highlighting topics including conflict resolution, cultural issues, and deviant behavior, this book is ideally designed for executives, managers, directors, business professionals, industry practitioners, human resources managers, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students working in management, organizational behavior, human resources, and employee relations fields.

Managing Organizational Deviance

Managing Organizational Deviance
Author: Roland E. Kidwell
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761930140

The success of an organization may be dependent on limiting the potential for deviant behavior, and if necessary, reacting to deviant behavior in a positive way. Managing Organizational Deviance goes beyond questions of control to also consider ethical dimensions of conduct. As a result, it teaches students who will go on to inhabit organizations to become familiar with the ethical implications of deviant and dysfunctional behavior in addition to managing this behavior in an effective way.

Crime Opportunity Theories

Crime Opportunity Theories
Author: Mangai Natarajan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1005
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351570692

Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. They emphasize the fundamental element in the criminal act of opportunity: how this arises, how it is perceived, evaluated and acted on by those with criminal dispositions. This volume brings together influential research articles on opportunity theories of crime by leading theorists such as Cohen and Felson on routine activity theory and Clarke and Cornish on the bounded rational choice perspective. The articles also include more recent theoretical developments and studies of situational crime prevention of specific twenty-first century crimes. These articles attest to the sheer volume as well to as the richness and the variety of work designed to reduce crime that has forever changed the face of criminology and criminal justice.

The Convenience of White-Collar Crime in Business

The Convenience of White-Collar Crime in Business
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030379906

This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context. The theory of convenience suggests that the extent to which elite members commit and conceal economic crime is dependent on their extent of orientation towards convenience in problematic and attractive situations. Chapters are organized along the main theoretical dimensions of economical motive, organizational opportunity, and personal willingness. In addition, this book: Addresses a business audience by focusing on themes familiar to corporations Documents attitudes towards white-collar crime among business students and future business leaders Analyzes how convenience orientation varies among individuals Analyzes autobiographies of convicted white-collar offenders Demonstrates the various ways in which white-collar crime occurs The Convenience of White-Collar Crime in Business contributes to an increased understanding of white-collar crime, offering valuable insight in business education that supplements the traditional roles of topics like auditing and compliance in education and practice. It is a useful resource for researchers and law enforcement, and those involved in the detection, prosecution, and conviction of white-collar offenders.

Corporate Control of White-Collar Crime

Corporate Control of White-Collar Crime
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3110986868

Traditionally, corporate control is all about top-down approaches to management of employees. Executives attempt to influence employees toward achieving business goals, and they attempt to prevent and detect wrongdoing, misconduct, and crime among employees. However, top-down approaches to corporate control do not work when executives and other privileged individuals in the business themselves commit and conceal their wrongdoing, misconduct, and crime in organizational settings. Then there is a need for a bottom-up approach in corporate control as outlined in this book. Bottom-up control refers to the manner in which organizational members can use different types of control mechanisms – such as whistleblowing, transparency, resource access, or culture – to monitor, measure, and evaluate executives’ avoidance of deviant behaviors and influence them toward achieving the organization’s goals in efficient and effective ways. The newly emerging perspective of a social license to operate forms part of the bottom-up strategy where criminalization becomes social property independent of the criminal justice system. The social license is predominantly centered on social permission for business activity where the media, social movements, and citizen watchdogs exert pressure, demand change, and bring top management to account. This book presents a novel approach to corporate control of white-collar crime based on the theory of convenience. White-collar crime is financial crime committed by privileged individuals who have legitimate access to resources based on the power and trust inherent through their professional positions. Convenience theory proposes that motive, opportunity, and willingness are the three dimensions that underlie white-collar crime in an organizational context. This book contributes to the study of white-collar criminality through a blend of theoretical discussions and practical materials that illuminate and support the use of convenience theory. The book discusses how bottom-up approaches can overcome the difficulty of detecting white-collar crime and overcome the barriers of preventing executive deviance.