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.
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Executive Deviance
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783110986860
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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