CEOs and white-collar crime : a convenience perspective / Petter Gottschalk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottschalk, Petter, 1950- author.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White collar crimes.

Chief executive officers.

Business enterprises--Corrupt practices.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

vii, 158 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

"This book aims to bridge the gap between general CEO research, which is traditionally focused on positive aspects of leadership, and lesser understood research into CEO misconduct and crime. Gottschalk introduces convenience theory as an integrated explanation for CEO involvement in white-collar crime. The chief executive officer is a unique position within an organization in terms of power and influence, role and behavior, compensation and benefits, and conflict and competition. The convenience perspective suggests that motivation (personal and organizational goals), opportunity (offense and concealment in an organizational context), as well as behavior (lack of control and neutralization of guilt) make financial crime a convenient option to avoid threats and to exploit opportunities. A thorough and methodical study, this book will be of special interest to scholars of corporate social responsibility and criminological theory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chief executive officers

White-collar criminals

Convenient financial motive

Convenient organizational opportunity

Convenient deviant behavior

CEO blame games

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319559346

3319559346

OCLC:

973919998