CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective
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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CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective
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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CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

by Petter Gottschalk
CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

by Petter Gottschalk

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319857831
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 07/27/2018
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages: 158
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway, where he teaches courses on financial crime prevention, characteristics of white-collar criminals, and private internal fraud investigations.

Table of 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.

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