Corporate Conformance and the Social License : A Criminological Perspective / by Petter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottschalk, Petter.

Contributor:

Hamerton, Christopher.

Series:

Law and Criminology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Crime Control and Security.

Local Subjects:

Crime Control and Security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Summary:

The principal focus of Corporate Conformance and the Social License: A Criminological Perspective is to enhance and broaden the criminological dialogue surrounding the role of and effect of corporate conformance as a key element in the maintenance of the social license to operate. The book posits that in recent years conformance has emerged as a key component in shaping corporate behaviour and informing corporate crises. With a series of widely publicised global scandals heightening awareness of extensive and serious repercussions, revealing severe financial and environmental impacts, operational issues, and even existential concerns. This has led to a growing body of research focusing on how such crises materialise, are perceived and might be strategically managed and prevented. The book foregrounds conformance as a proactive demonstration of adherence to contemporary ethical standards of globalized business practice, with the authors offering a novel perspective that considers conformance and associated normative pressures within a criminological framework. Here, convenience theory is applied to analyse a series of important contemporary case-studies, with the research illustrating how corporations and their stakeholders have used conformance to manage, maintain and, following periods of crisis, attempt to regain their corporate license to operate. The book further explores differences in strategic conformance responses in terms of perceptions and reactions from the public, media and criminal justice system. Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Christopher Hamerton teaches and researches criminology and criminal justice in the School of Policy & Global Affairs at City St George's, University of London, United Kingdom.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Conformance Beyond Compliance

Chapter 2: Conformance and the use of Sanctions, Boycotts and Blacklisting

Chapter 3: Stakeholders, Conformance Pressure and Social Recovery

Chapter 4: Challenging Conformance: The Precarity of Social Licence

Chapter 5: Regulatory Deviance and Social Conformity

Chapter 6: Stakeholder Conformance Demands

Chapter 7: Strategic Management of Conformance in the Media Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-031-95812-8

OCLC:

1532831483