Dirty Business

Exploring Corporate Misconduct: Analysis and Cases

Drawing on both theory and major case studies, this book provides a much-needed sociological and comparative analysis of the world of the manager in the context of misconduct within business organizations. Organizational misbehaviour and crime have been relatively neglected in the social sciences, particularly in business studies. Analyses have tended to be fragmentary, overly slanted towards narrow external views - such as those of legal control and public policy - and predominantly North American. Dirty Business rectifies this by offering a broad sociological perspective related to work, organizations and management, supported by a range of key international case studies. In developing his arguments, Maurice Punch

Literature and Concepts Virtually everyone writing on the subject of white-collar
and corporate crime commences with the obligatory and repetitive observation
that there is a lamentable paucity of substantial work in this area. By this people ...