Corporate Misconduct: The Legal, Societal, and Management Issues

by Ronald R. Sims, Margaret P. Spencer

Overview

An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. Volume editors and their contributors explore the legal, societal, and business ramifications; offer a wide range of real-world and theoretical examples and the lessons they teach; and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899308791
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/21/1995
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

MARGARET P. SPENCER, an Associate Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary, has served as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Senior Appellate Attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as an Assistant United States Attorney. She teaches civil procedures, criminal procedure, and criminal trial advocacy, and is the author of Prosecutorial Immunity: The Response to Prenatal Drug Use and An Overview of the ADA.

RONALD R. SIMS is Floyd Dewey Gottwald Professor of Business Administration and Director of the M.B.A. program at the College of William & Mary. A consultant to private and public sector organizations in organizational behavior and human resource management, he is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, among them Ethics and Organizational Decision Making: A Call for Renewal (Quorum, 1994), Diversity and Differences in Organizations: Agenda for Answers and Questions (Quorum, 1993), and Training Enhancement in Government Organizations (Quorum, 1993).

Table of Contents

Preface
Understanding Corporate Misconduct: An Overview and Discussion by Ronald R. Sims and Margaret P. Spencer
A Look at Corporate Crime by Margaret P. Spencer
Corporate Criminal Liability by Ronald Dixon
Corporate Sentencing Guidelines by Evelyn E. C. Queen
The Regulator's Perspective on Corporate Fraud by Kay Kindred and Ronald R. Sims
Corporate Fraud and the Investor by Richard A. Cohn
Corporate Fraud: The Employee's Perspective by William T. Geary
Hacking, Computer Viruses, and Software Piracy: The Implications of Modern Computer Fraud for Corporations by Hsing K. Cheng
Corporate Fraud in Marketing: Business Practices and Advertising Content by Ralph S. Foster, Jr., Suzette M. Jelinek, and William I. Sauser, Jr.
Corporate Codes of Conduct by Frank Seales, Jr., and Margaret P. Spencer
Countering Corporate Misconduct: The Role of Human Resource Management by Serbrenia J. Sims and Ronald R. Sims

Editorial Reviews

For use in graduate and undergraduate course in law and business schools. Treats such aspects of corporate crime as corporate liability, sentencing guidelines, the regulator's perspective, fraud and the investor, the employee's perspective, computer crime, and the role of human resource management in countering misconduct. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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