Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct: Analysis and CasesDrawing on both theory and major case studies, this book provides a much-needed sociological and comparative analysis of the world of the manager in the context of misconduct within business organizations. Organizational misbehaviour and crime have been relatively neglected in the social sciences, particularly in business studies. Analyses have tended to be fragmentary, overly slanted towards narrow external views - such as those of legal control and public policy - and predominantly North American. Dirty Business rectifies this by offering a broad sociological perspective related to work, organizations and management, supported by a range of key international case studies. In developing his arguments, Maurice Punch |
Contents
Part One Introduction | 1 |
Business Society and Corporate Deviance | 22 |
Consequences | 50 |
The Deleterious Consequences of Corporate Behaviour | 59 |
National Styles | 68 |
The Central Issues and Using the Cases | 83 |
Other editions - View all
Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct: Analysis and Cases Maurice Punch Limited preview - 1996 |
Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct: Analysis and Cases Maurice Punch No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
accident accounts activities affair American argued Banco Ambrosiano bank Bank of England bankers BCCI behaviour Boesky Braithwaite brake business crime business deviance Business Week Calavita and Pontell Calvi claims Clinard complex conspiracy corporate crime corporate deviance corporate misconduct court criminal culture Daily Mail damage deal Drexel drug Dutch economic effective emerged enforcement environment ethical executives fraud GrĂ¼nenthal Guinness Gurwin highly illegal industry insider trading instance institutions interests internal investigation involved issue Italian Kochan lawyers leading Leeson London major managerial managers manipulation Maxwell McDonnell Douglas Milken million moral offences operators organization organizational political pressure profits prosecution regulation regulatory reputation response Revco Roberto Calvi safety sanctions Saunders scandal Sindona social society structure takeover Thalidomide Three Mile Island thrifts tion tough Turkish Airlines Vandivier Vatican victims violations Volkskrant Wall Street white-collar crime York