Convenience Orientation In Corporate Crime eBook

This book addresses corporate wrongdoing as a criminal phenomenon driven by convenience. Corrective recovery triggers include crime detection, corporate scandal, whistleblowing, and bottom-up change management. While compliance refers to meeting legal and other formal obligations, conformance refers to meeting and potentially exceeding societal and other informal norms and obligations. Lack of conformance tends to have immediate and serious consequences when revealed. People react when corporations pollute rivers, do business with authoritarian regimes, provide favors to government officials, look another way at money laundering, and commit other forms of wrongdoing that might never end up in the criminal justice system. People express their reactions in social media, in the press, and in the street by demonstrations.

Corporate compliance and conformance programs require monitoring, auditing, corrective actions, and system modifications or redesign to prevent future problem behavior. Window-dressing by symbol change rather than substance change does not work anymore. Often, deviant executives need to be replaced after honest accounts of wrongdoing, where an account refers to a statement made by the entity to explain negative behavior that has become subject to inquiry by stakeholders and others. Denial, justification, excuse, apology, scapegoating, victimization, crusading, or other explanatory attempts should be avoided. The contribution of this book to the literature is to present a range of corrective recovery responses that help reduce crime convenience.

Contents:

• Concepts of Convenience Orientation
• Characteristics of Corporate Crime
• Corrective Recovery Responses
• Compliance for Legal License
• Conformance for Social License
• Recovery from Corporate Reviews
• Recovery from Stakeholder Demands
• Recovery from Police Deterrence
• Policing Digital Fraudsters
• Fraud Office Media Coverage
• Destructive Leadership
• Scandal into Crisis

Readership: Students and researchers interested in business ethics, corporate governance, organizational behaviour, criminal justice.

Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. He received his education at Technische Universität Berlin, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Henley Management College. He held several chief executive officer (CEO) positions in industry before joining the business school where he teaches knowledge management, corporate investigation, and white-collar crime prevention. Dr Gottschalk has published extensively on the theory of convenience and maturity models for assessment of internal reviews.