CEOs and White-Collar Crime [electronic resource] : A Convenience Perspective / by Petter Gottschalk.

By: Gottschalk, Petter [author.]Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: VII, 158 p. 1 illus. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319559353Subject(s): Social responsibility of business | Critical criminology | Transnational crime | Criminology | Criminology and Criminal Justice | White Collar Crime | Transnational Crime | Criminological Theory | Corporate Social Responsibility | Critical CriminologyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleOnline resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Chief Executive Officers -- 3. White-Collar Criminals -- 4. Convenient Financial Motive -- 5. Convenient Organizational Opportunity -- 6. Convenient Deviant Behavior -- 7. CEO Blame Games -- 8. Conclusion.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Chief Executive Officers -- 3. White-Collar Criminals -- 4. Convenient Financial Motive -- 5. Convenient Organizational Opportunity -- 6. Convenient Deviant Behavior -- 7. CEO Blame Games -- 8. Conclusion.

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.

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