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Petter Gottschalk
Crisis Management: Recovering the Social License by Corporate Conformance expands the literature on crisis management by drawing on criminological concepts such as individual and corporate deviance by misconduct convenience.
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This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective. The work will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the…
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This book presents a number of case studies of investigation reports by fraud examiners, offering a framework for studying the report as well as insights into convenience of fraud.
Traditionally, control in organizations is concerned with top-down approaches, where executives attempt to direct employees' performance. This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside down…
Petter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton
Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original…
This book presents a close analysis of the field of internal investigations within complex organizations. Applying an offender-based perspective, the authors explore the central role of convenience in seeking to…
This book is concerned with private investigations into suspicions of financial crime committed by white-collar criminals. Financial crime is illegal possession of others property, it is crime directed towards values…
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Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers examines the role of lawyers in court cases involving white-collar crimes, revealing fresh insights into the relationship between a lawyer’s stature and a case’s potential…
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The main objective of knowledge management is to support the creation, transfer, and application of knowledge. This book combines knowledge management with other subject areas within the management information systems…
The CIO position and importance depend on information technology maturity in the organization, value configuration, strategic IT resources, e-business approach, and IT governance structure. This book provides analysis within theoretical…
Very few white-collar criminals are detected. They are able to commit and conceal their fraud to benefit their organization or themselves, and continue in their privileged professional positions as members…
Based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and…
Presents business-technology alignment processes, interaction processes, and decision processes, helping the reader study information technology from a dynamic, rather than a static, perspective.
Policing Financial Crime presents theories of financial crime, stages of financial crime, and criminal entrepreneurship. Response, regulation, and prevention of financial crime are described in terms of police intelligence strategy…
Criminal characteristics collected for each person included gender, age when convicted, age when committing crime, number of years in prison, court level, amount of money involved in crime, number of…
Organised crime activities have received increased attention throughout the world. All of these activities share one commonality, they are organised and they often rely on some form of official corruption…
Police oversight agencies are citizens’ watchdog organizations designed to ensure that the police are operating with integrity and accountability. Integrity is defined as the quality of being honest and morally…
Private internal investigations by fraud examiners is a growing business for professional services firms. This book presents evaluations of a number of investigation reports in the United States and Norway…
Fraud and Corruption is at the core of financial crime by white-collar offenders. This book provides an introduction to the shadow economy and presents the theory of convenience for white-collar…
Presents the research and trends in using knowledge management to aid police activities. This book presents the principles and practices that help law enforcement professionals find ways to bring vast…
This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context. The theory…
This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime. It argues that as personal motives change, so too do organizational opportunities and willingness for deviant behaviour. It will be…
Applies the knowledge-based view of the firm, which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies stages…
This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside down as it focuses on control of executives who find white-collar crime convenient. The bottom-up approach to…
This book reviews a range of reports written by fraud examiners after completing internal investigations. These reports are normally kept secret and are the property of client organizations, which do…
This book applies a structural model of convenience theory to suspected crime and a maturity model to investigation reports. Evidence of white-collar convenience themes in each case study is derived…
This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. IT will be essential to those studying Law, Business, and…
This book introduces ‘convenience’ as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals. It advances our understanding of white-collar crime by drawing attention to private investigation reports by…
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.
Investigating white-collar crime is distinguished from other types of crime by: concealment of the crime rather than the criminal, victims who may be unaware of the crime and not directly…
As documented in a number of case studies in this book, recidivism seems to be of a substantial magnitude in corporate crime. Corporations tend to repeat white-collar offenses such as…
This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public.
This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives.
This book presents several case studies where fraud examiners reviewed the legal license, while the social license was ignored, distinguishing between punishment from violations of the legal license and punishment…
It also examines the Vest Tank toxic waste dumping case and the resulting explosion where unusually both the chairperson and the chief executive were successfully sentenced to prison because of…
