Charting corporate corruption
Subtitle: agency, structure, and escalation
By: Peter Fleming, Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos.
Contributors: Zyglidopoulos, Stelios C.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781847205162
Subjects: Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- History; Business ethics -- History
Description: "In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact to result in the rapid escalation of corporate crime. By analyzing and describing the social psychological dimensions of this escalation, the book will be effective in creating preventive measures that can be designed and implemented in business organizations."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-152) and index.