Corporate Corruption

This insightful book is a comprehensive examination of corporate misbehavior and abuses. Turning a harsh spotlight on America's prestigious Fortune 500, Clinard reveals that despite their massive production powers, far too many of American's proudest industrial giants have abused the public trust, the people who consume their products, their stockholders, the environment, and even the Third World that they profess to help. Clinard identifies the auto, oil, pharmaceutical, and defense industries as the major offenders. He devotes a chapter to each of them, as well as chapters on corporate violence and bribery, and a final discussion of how to correct these widespread abuses. While avoiding the undignified zealotry of tabloid muckraking, this volume examines the disparity between the facts of corporate misconduct and the glowing image that advertising and other media portray of these corporations.

An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. Volume editors and their contributors explore the legal, societal, and business ramifications; offer a wide range of real-world and theoretical examples and the lessons they teach; and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.

As a follow-up to the editors' Interactive Corporate Compliance, this collection of essays details efforts that have been made to resolve differences between business and government. It studies ways in which interactive compliance has worked, and provides the means to discuss problems that still remain and how they can be solved. Among the topics covered are the corporate counsel's role in compliance, programs that confront middle managers with corporate criminals, and the educational failings of law and business schools. Specific experiments in corporate compliance from across the U.S. are also detailed.

Reactions to misconduct in the workplace are wide and varied. Using data from personal inteviews and surveys of employees in various work settings, this book examines the issue of whistleblowing from a number of different perspectives.

One of the classics of radical criminology - a compelling account of how power and powerlessness operate within the criminal justice system.

This book has two purposes. First, it is fundamentally about groups at work, both as they attempt to accomplish their goals and as they operate in organizational settings. Second, it draws together group researchers from social psychological and organizational studies. Each chapter focuses on a central issue regarding groups as they work and examines that issue by drawing from both social psychological and organizational research. Thus, this book centers on the convergence and divergence of these two fields.