This text explores organizational deviance, its damaging consequences and the opportunities for organizational misbehaviour provided by deregulation and globalization. Ten major case studies are provided through which the practices, mechanisms and explanations of deviance can be analyzed. Moving from the classic but still extremely illuminating goodrich Brake scandal to more recent scandals such as Guinness in UK, Calvi in Italy and RSV in The Netherlands, the author highlights the range of deviance from deliberately criminal to less deliberate - and no less culpable - mismanagement. He also analyzes the market, competitive, organizational and personal factors which can lead to corporate and managerial misconduct. Throughout the author is concerned with the question "why do good managers turn to dirty business?". A discussion of issues compliance and control and how corporate misconduct might be tackled rounds off the book.
Maurice Punch, previously Professor of Sociology at Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business, is now an independent scholar and consultant. He has published extensively in the area of business ethics and organizational crime.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Management and Organizational Misbehaviour Business, Society, and Corporate Deviance White-Collar Crime and Organizational Deviance Consequences and Control PART TWO: CASES Ten Cases of Corporate Deviance PART THREE: CONCLUSION Everything but Temptation Tackling Business Crime
In today's changed globalizing business environment, it has become imperative for most small industries to grow quickly, merely in order to survive. The question is: How does one go about making growth happen? In this well researched book the author examines 10 cases of highly successful Indian enterprises run by first generation entrepreneurs to answer this important question. `It is written in an accessible form and is reasonably priced.... Criminological and organisational material will be particularly useful, in addition to providing a useful source for criminology, law and sociology students' - British Journal of Criminology `The core of this book is a set of ten case studies of "corporate deviance" from around the world, including the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the Michael Milken scandal in Wall Street and the Guiness affair. Aimed at a business school readership, the author considers why individuals go "wrong" and the extent to which organisation culture influences behaviour' - Community Affairs Briefing `From executive greed to criminal negligence, Dirty Business offers a masterful account of the great business debacles and disasters of modern times. A must read for all who want to understand - and prevent - corporate misconduct' - Michael Useem, University of Pennsylvania
